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Leaving Twitter with Tim Bray

Oxide and Friends

CHAPTER

Are You Enraged?

Facebook and Twitter have built these models that use, they built huge ML models based on billions of data points. That turns out that when you, you know, enraged people, sure that gets them maximally engaged. But the fact of the matter is in the context of a capitalist offering, like Facebook or Twitter, the algorithm will operate in the interest of whoever paid to have it written.

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