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  1. Allison Parrish (aparrish@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2017 16:46:06 EST Allison Parrish Allison Parrish

    excellent piece on feedback loops between recommendation engines and procedurally-generated content, specifically with regard to videos targeted to children on youtube: https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2 (content warnings in article)

    reminds me of cathy o'neil's concept of "weapons of math destruction" in which data-driven algorithms feed back on data from the society that they create http://time.com/4471451/cathy-oneil-math-destruction/

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