Comment by Arkhadia
16 hours ago
Serious question: Why is the back end learning of so many human habits not creepy to you? It was weaponized once with how they created armies of teenagers who called their local representatives and made threats.
16 hours ago
Serious question: Why is the back end learning of so many human habits not creepy to you? It was weaponized once with how they created armies of teenagers who called their local representatives and made threats.
> Why is the back end learning of so many human habits not creepy to you?
In the context of banning TikTok for this particular reason, then X.com, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube are all equally guilty in how they both boost and suppress different types of content based on interference from local government.
> It was weaponized once with how they created armies of teenagers who called their local representatives and made threats.
This is an extremely dramatic way of saying "they had a banner in the app which informed users of a policy that affected them and directed them to contact their representatives", something which plenty of other social media platforms, such as Reddit have done without controversy.
They weaponized the backend to drive that by injecting in recommendations for that inorganically, or that was something that emerged from having a recommender system backend?