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Originally Posted by Lightspeed
You know, the real problem here has been around since long before social media.
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The real problem is marketing and advertising.
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I was listening to an interesting episode of the History Hit podcast the other night, really interesting tidbit: the witchcraft mania of the late middle ages was possibly driven by the invention of the printing press. All of a sudden it was possible to disseminate inflammatory fake news about people you didn't like. Rumour here, denouncement there, next thing you know... burn the witch.
Marketing and advertising have been around for tens of thousands of years, big deal. Machine-learning-driven attention-grabbing is the problem. We have given the keys to an addiction machine to an AI, and the AI has worked out that what people get most addicted to is outrage. So now the AI is working out what form of outrage is the most addictive for each individual person.