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Instagram is steering paedophiles towards accounts belonging to children as young as 11, who should not be on the platform in the first place, a Sunday Times investigation has found.Predators who follow users posting photos of young models, dancers or gymnasts are shown a stream of other images they
Externalities.
Opinion: I worked on AI for YouTube’s "recommended for you" feature. We underestimated how the algorithms could go terribly wrong.
Lovely, lovely intro piece.
"Information fiduciary" works in some situations but not others.
This text is the written version of the talk given at the Knight Media Forum conference. It was presented on February 23, 2019
Companies use recommendation engines to tell you what to buy, read, and watch. But those algorithms aren’t your friends.
For example, jobs with taxi companies were overwhelmingly delivered to black users and secretarial ads to women, despite neutral targeting preferences.
The enormous financial success of online advertising platforms is partially due to the precise targeting features they offer. Although researchers and journalists have found many ways that...
Targeted advertising has turned the platform into the best and worst place to buy stuff online.
Recommendation algorithms on sites like Facebook and YouTube can send users down rabbit holes, spread falsehoods, and foster conspiracy theories.
More on "info voids".
Researchers found that the more accurately a recommendation engine pegs your interests, the faster it traps you in an information bubble.
How gameable recommendation systems mislead customers about health information.
Writings about libraries, technology, and the Web by Matthew Reidsma.
CW: suicide
Ad fraud, fake news, etc.
Personalization comes at a steep price. All your data gets sucked up into a company’s servers where they can do whatever they want with it. But Canopy is a new content discovery startup that’s invented impressive technology that lets it learn about you anonymously while all your data stays on your device. Built by the […]
If you use Bing’s image search, you’re going to see the worst filth you can imagine. Bing suggests racist terms and shows horrifying images. Bing will even suggest you search for exploited children if you have SafeSearch disabled.
Privacy issues and ultra-concentrated markets could stem from companies collecting our data, according to this computer scientist.