What I always come back to is that these things are close to inevitable when you combine machine learning, reactivity, depression and anxiety these kinds of things become almost inevitable. That's not a defense. It's inherent to the product.
https://twitter.com/donie/status/1445145357235666946
2/ Looking at the responses here I’m struck again that people don’t really grasp what Facebook is, what the product is. It’s designed to find charged emotional topics and serve them specifically for you to maximize engagement.
3/ That’s more jarring when it’s serving weight loss tips and fat shaming content to teenage girls with body image insecurities. But it’s that same model for everybody. I think I know this more intuitively because it was literally my business for a long time to …
4/ understand how the platforms were reshaping the advertising industry. I actually feel a certain sympathy for the researchers because they’re getting data that pushes against the most elemental aspect of the product. So the thing we’re always supposed to be …
5/ designing/optimizing for well we need to not do that for teen girls. but again a lot of the population is a teen girl abt some issue. Certainly adolescents. But again, the same model is damaging in similar ways, though some populations are more vulnerable than others.
6/ It’s like the tobacco company scientists who first had the irrefutable proof: our product causes cancer. And a lot of it. And not just if you use it to excess. Like our product … we’ll let’s just call them cancer sticks because that’s what they are.
7/ That analogy may seem overwrought to some. I’m not sure it is. But it’s on point to the extent that this isn’t some malfunction of the product or abuse or edge case: it’s the core product itself. It’s why the company is worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
8/ The money maker is inherently damaging. It’s not speech. It’s more like a psych experiment gone wrong. The business model is getting all the money from the engine and letting society absorb the damage.
9/ Some say that nuclear is simply non-economic as an energy source. Not so. Nuclear power is actually extremely cheap. All the expense is tied to the vast costs of insulating the rest of society from the inherent dangers of radioactive material.
10/ Facebook is like a fabulously lucrative nuclear energy company that is so profitable because it leaks radioactive constantly.
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