Comment by forgingahead

5 years ago

This implication is striking, not just for us individuals & communities to realise how niche perhaps opinions online are compared to our own, but also for engaging with:

- Media orgs, that often take offhand/random opinions online and blow it up beyond proportion. Overton Window shifts occur because of this, and political impacts often happen as a result.

- AI models, like those trained off of publicly available text sources online (comments and otherwise).