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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by afarrell on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @09:44AM (#28693552)
There seems to be an AI safety problem here: The youtube algorithm is optimizing for engagement at the cost of some other less-quantifiable human value like social trust.

https://youtu.be/L5pUA3LsEaw

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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by macinjosh on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:47PM (#28696302)
I am gonna go out on a limb and say Google's product dashboards likely all have engagement metrics and probably close to zero have "social trust" metrics.
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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by afarrell on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @01:06PM (#28696617)
Right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy

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