What is it?
When you engage with a personalized website, it responds to your inferred interest by providing similar things. The problem with this approach is that it can quickly lead you into a sinkhole—or radicalize you. (Think YouTube autoplay.)
I feel that this is related to the properties of mistrained self-learning AIs—they can self-validate the wrong results.
About the Series
This is part of my “Algorithm” body of work:
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“Illegal in Illinois”
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“Morale is Mandatory (Algorithm Livery)”
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“Probing GauGAN2”
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“Feedback Loop”
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“Probing DALL-E Mini”
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“Probing ImageNet”
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“Snap Judgment”
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“Data Chains”
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“Print/Shred”
More details at “About Algorithms,” the companion site for this work.
Press
- Washington City Paper: "Best Bets for July 14–21" (July 14, 2021)