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Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone by RHSman2 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @03:15AM (#33528689)
I interviewed for a data science product manager role (I am one) at a games company. They were doing very interesting things with generative models however the person running it’s speciality was a Phd in addiction (and plenty of work in the field)

Was so interesting from an intellectual stand point but so very very evil.

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Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone by cinntaile on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @03:46AM (#33528876)
What was the company name?
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Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone by RHSman2 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @06:12AM (#33529851)
Playtika
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Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone by machinekob on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @04:18AM (#33529046)
Sounds like EA but I'm not sure if you can even speak about that right now :D
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Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone by RHSman2 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:43AM (#33530740)
I am in no way interested in not letting people know about this. It is outrageous.

How to give the gift of dopamine no matter where you are in your gaming journey.

Introduce ‘gifts’, monitor effect and then mass deploy. All using ML tools.

Clever but oh so awful.

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Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone by xphx on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @03:13PM (#33537200)
A 2016 talk by Tribeflame CEO Torulf Jernström about the monetization of mobile games called "Let's Go Whaling!" also caused a bit of a ruffle a while ago.

Ominously delivered with smug smirk, met by smug laughter: "I'll leave the morality of it out of the talk. We can discuss it, if we have time, later."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNjI03CGkb4

Turns out they would have had time later but for some reason opted not to.

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Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone by RHSman2 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:11AM (#33544474)
It’s like the wonderfully pretty, comfortable offices of Phillip Morris. Help everyone forget where their salaries come from.
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