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noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store (techcrunch.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's potentially worse, because before you may have had an algorithm that a human could fine tune or whistleblow on. Now if it is trained on large datasets, the resulting algorithm is usually a blackbox weight matrix, they probably have no idea what pattern it is optimizing :S

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nearly every social media has used Machine Learning to create personalised since a very long time, it was just not marketed as AI..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yea, by "before" I guess I meant before 2013...which leaves more "after" than "before" for social media 😅 .