8mo ago

China has set a three-month deadline for Big Tech to resolve algorithm issues. Companies must avoid recommendation algorithms that create "echo chambers", induce addiction, allow manipulation of trend

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Is this an honest initiative? I'm pretty skeptical of China trying to do the right thing here...
Isn't the whole country an echo chamber?
- Depends on who you ask
- The Great Firewall deems it so.
That sounds peachy. Let's do it here too.
Is it algorithms or intolerant people that create echo chambers?
- There's been pretty exhaustive writings about how YouTube radicalizes people and pushes them in certain directions, so I think it's pretty safe to say that while it's both algorithms do play a significant part
  
  I don't think radicalization and echo chambers are the same thing. Radicalization might end up creating an echo chamber but that is usually at the end of the radicalization process.
  
  Please, share!
- Look at the whole bluesky thing. That's people self-selecting to create an echo chamber, without an algorithm placing them there, ain't it?
- Yes, it depends on the scale but yes.
- Algorithms

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