Algorithms are breaking how we think
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This surely won't make me seem like a crank.Further watching:@HGModernism on addiction to scrolling and the Skinner box mechanism:https://www.youtube.com/wat...

A slightly unusual video from the fantastic Technology Connections channel. It articulates a lot of my own thoughts on social media, “algorithms” and AI.

What surprised me the most was the statistic that only 3% of author’s views come from the subscriptions feed. This is wild to me because subscriptions are pretty much the only way I have ever used YouTube.

  • humiddragonslayer@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    This is the video that led me to actually start taking a hard look at social media (I was already off of Instagram, but that was almost unconscious in that I just started loathing the app), and led me down the rabbit hole that eventually led me to Lemmy!