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The next big social media thing coming to America is Chinese Bytedance which uses AI to select and promote certain content. Bytedance claims like Facebook that the company is an “intermediary” and can't be held responsible for user-generated content. chinafilminsider.com/insights-tikto…
Bytedance bought Chinese owned Music.ly which promoted videos of underage users lip syncing to sexually suggestive acts. Surprise.... users have prurient interests..and Bytedance is a publisher who profits from ads based on popularity. scmp.com/tech/start-ups…
Music.ly was hammered by the FTC for being completely blind to the impact of underage soft porn..on children, even though they use "artificial intelligence" to select what customers want. nytimes.com/2019/02/27/tec…
This creates the classic dilemma of giving people what they want (porn) versus what is considered appropriate by experience editors versus advertising click sales. Or is all this controversy just fake news? techcrunch.com/2018/12/19/tik…
In addition to mass control of what their population can see, Chinese business has brutal tactics in dirty tricks, manipulation of artificial intelligence and algorthms used by online businesses.
So when a massive online publisher says they have no responsibility for the content, yet manipulates, censors, promotes and monetizes that same content. Content that promotes and spreads unhealthy content? Who is to blame? newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
The "bad" content that is generated uncovers "excitable" users and trolls who use this content to rile people up, start arguments, promote scammers or spread fictional news. All monetizable and all promoted by the social media ad and viral model cmds.ceu.edu/article/2018-0…
We worry about what Zuckerberg does with users data deliberately or through incompetence but what about Chinese companies? nypost.com/2019/05/18/chi…
