Modern day tobacco. 100% unregulated addiction.
FB, TWTR, GOOG, INSTA, everyone switched from timeline to personal recommendation engines and TikTok is just doing it so much better. Where will things be in 5, 10, 50 years? Terrifying and exciting.
Do these tech companies sit on research to suggest that these algorithms can induce behavior-changing tactics through trial-and-error? Will they all have their tobacco-causes-cancer moment?
Old-Age Fear: YouTube algorithm sending people down the conspiracy rabbit hole
New-Age Fear (Hyper-Efficient): TikTok secretly radicalizing individual in X?
The big question strikes: "what is free will?"
Amazing read