Clear algorithms: China’s Big Tech ordered to clean up recommendation function
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Latest move to tighten regulation comes amid soaring use of algorithms for content recommendation, e-commerce and gig work distribution.
  • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    with some people unwittingly being mired in something and being led to believe that it is far more popular and normal than what it is, based entirely on their ever-increasing exposure to that thing

    Very apt description, thank you.

      • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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        21 hours ago

        I would think this analogy is a bridge to far, as both (1) people are free to not participate in the case of specific online communities, and (2) prison population isn’t a great representation of the total population.