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Decyphering social media recommender systems @trackingexposed Creating better alternatives @YouChooseAI Ex AI researcher @BerkeleyISchool and @facebookAI
Feb 24, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
A TikTok novelty: FACE-BASED FITLER BUBBLES
The AI-bias techlash seems to have had no impact on newer platforms.
Follow a random profile, and TikTok will only recommend people who look almost the same.
Let’s do the experiment from a fresh account:
1/6 Clearly, recommendations are very physiognomic.
But it’s not just gender and ethnicity, you can get much more niche facial profiling.
TikTok adapts 'recommendability' on hair style, body profile, age, how (un)dressed the person is, and even whether they have visible disabilities.