“requiring algorithms reveal why you are being served any particular content.”
Curious, what does that do for you?
Curious, what does that do for you?
But it also pierces bubbles, like if X has to disclaim its AI replies with divisive stuff because it's skewed to produce divisive stuff, and you're seeing a lot of it because of your traits: young man, white, christian.
This transparency covers why you as an individual receive the content, and regulators understanding how the platform recommends content.
I can see where you’re going with the young, white, Christian = [Interest group D4], but I think that gets into what people think Facebook and such really are. Are they showing people what they want, or what they should see? If a profile had (Mountain Dew, WWE Wrestling, White, Male, Carpentry) a company gambling with their ad $ would say “All you can eat BBQ ribs at Jimmy’s Smoke Joint”, because that’s a fair guess about what they want. Although it’d surely be nice if they saw ads for a delicious Coq au Vin and maybe took the opportunity to expand their horizons, but that’s not what any part of the system exists to do, and I’m not sure I really fault them for it.
It’s really no different with any other dichotomy; politics, rage bait, educational…what they probably want is terrible and gives you heart disease and the stupids, but they don’t exist to force vegetables onto your plate.