Re:Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends
by ketzo on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:55AM
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If content-generation AI is given sufficient resources and training input, I think 4>5 is pretty much guaranteed.
The recommendation systems that power "algorithmic everyone" are not optimizing for real human interaction, or real people sharing real things; they're optimizing for the absolute most engaging content that they can find.
This is Kardashian-killing because no one person or brand -- not even Kim -- can create the most engaging content in the world on every single post; and even if they could, they can't do it at a rate to fill an entire feed.
Sufficiently good recommendation systems kill the Kardashians because they can crawl through an ocean of user-generated content and find the winners.
If you combine a sufficiently good content-generation AI with the data you glean from the world's best recommendation system, you can just create the most engaging possible content, without even knowing what that would be.
The recommendation systems that power "algorithmic everyone" are not optimizing for real human interaction, or real people sharing real things; they're optimizing for the absolute most engaging content that they can find.
This is Kardashian-killing because no one person or brand -- not even Kim -- can create the most engaging content in the world on every single post; and even if they could, they can't do it at a rate to fill an entire feed.
Sufficiently good recommendation systems kill the Kardashians because they can crawl through an ocean of user-generated content and find the winners.
If you combine a sufficiently good content-generation AI with the data you glean from the world's best recommendation system, you can just create the most engaging possible content, without even knowing what that would be.