YouTube: Designed to Seduce
Fabio Tollon,
3 Quarks Daily,
Aug 20, 2020
The point has been made before, but this is a good restatement that approaches the issue from an epistemic perspective. "The YouTube recommender system encourages users to view counter-normative and epistemically problematic content.... The recommender system, designed for profit, seemingly lacks an adequate epistemic component. That is, it does not seem to have a good enough mechanism for detecting epistemically good from epistemically problematic content. This blindness is especially challenging because it seems as though YouTube is actually making more money as a result of this system." The lies are free for us, but they make money for YouTube.
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