Forget Privacy: You're Terrible at Targeting Anyway
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Forget Privacy: You're Terrible at Targeting Anyway
As George Orwell envisioned in 1984, the television might watch us while we are watching it. After we’ve finished watching Tarantino’s entire filmography, we may have forgotten most of it. But Netflix, or Amazon, or whoever owns the TV algorithm will know our personality type and how to press our emotional buttons. Such data could enable Netflix an
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
I just don’t think it is possible to get a recommendation system that makes everyone happy; there are too many stakeholders with directly contradictory needs.
The answer could potentially be that companies should empower users to control the recommendation engines they interact with. This sounds tempting, but I have concerns. We don’t inte
... See moreEvan Armstrong • Recommendation Algorithms Are a Necessary Evil (Sort Of)
The Internet, though, is a world of abundance, and there is a new power that matters: the ability to make sense of that abundance, to index it, to find needles in the proverbial haystack. And that power is held by Google. Thus, while the audiences advertisers crave are now hopelessly fractured amongst an effectively infinite number of publishers, t... See more
Ben Thompson • Aggregator’s AI Risk
