What we know (and don't) about social media algorithms
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Algorithms and the Black Box Problem
The black box problem is the idea that albrhythms are opaque, and it's difficult to understand what they do or anticipate what kinds of outputs or outcomes they'll produce. The companies that create them share very little information about their acams because they're sort of like trade secrets. And then the other aspect of it is that alberlems have become really, really complex,. They deal with these massive data sets that are analyzi in thousands of different features in the data sets. Often operating with maybe minimal human oversight.
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