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>Algorithms chose for you, and they chose badly.

The algorithms don't choose badly. They actually choose very well. It's just their optimization function is different -- their optimization goal is more clicks and more ad revenue, not the society's good.

Click-based revenue model encourages pretty dark sides of humanity.



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