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Guess its time to ban them too. Since the last social media ban was bipartisan Im sure this one will happen quickly /s
To be clear the last ban was a ByteDance ban, not a TicTok ban. If ByteDance sells off it's portion of TikTok, TikTok would be able to remain.
But in this case, the Section 230 needs to re-visited. It was written before social networks started algorithmically deciding what to show people. It needs to be adapted so these companies can be held liable for the content they "recommend" to users. Once they can be sued for their algorithm's decisions, those algorithms will magically get better. Or at least less harmful.
I feel like we need a phrase for this.
"It's the algorithm, stupid!"
And if they can be sued for algorithmic recommendations at all, I feel like their resort would be going back to pure "user" recommendation like community managed feeds, following other's recs and such. Which would kill SO MANY birds with one stone.
If the courts were competent, it would already be the case.
Not really. Because the law gives them quasi common-carrier protections. So they can't be held liable by the courts.
That made sense at the time; When the feed was just a simple reverse chronology of whatever you decided to subscribe to. But now, they actually decide what you see and don't. The laws need to catch up.
Citing AI use, what does that mean?
Where did you read that?
How AI comes into the picture is that Meta claims that they do this via "AI", which cannot be known how it works, so they can't be blamed for it being ineffective, and the research group put together a piece of software that did a better job in 3 days, so Meta should either git gud or stop bullshitting about trying their best.
I thought I read this in the article but I can’t seem to find it now
Anyway yes, it appears as if they are trying to blame the fact that they use shitty AI that doesn’t do a very good job. That’s a pretty shitty excuse.
Until some regulatory agency fines them to the degree that it actually hurts their bottom line, they have no incentive to do better. You can't appeal to the morality of a corporation. As a business, they only respond to numbers.
The content they watch there is questionable.
Yeah, no shit. The Internet remains mankind’s greatest mistake.
Centralized, engagement-driven, advertisement financed, social media, is the internet's greatest mistake.
Prior to that shit, the internet was pretty great. The fediverse is way to fix much of it.