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A Viking Funeral for Sydney the Chatbot, Meta’s Verified Experiment, Algorithms and Liability as Section 230 Takes Center Stage

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

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Is There a Market Incentive to Serve Users?

The question here is not intent, it's where decisions on the margin sort of fall. I think that Google wishes desperately they had not served this content to this person that committed this horrific act in Paris. On the other hand, there's a huge incentives to make sure that the bad stuff doesn't get surfaced. And it's not good for Google or Facebook for people being radicalized.

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