Review: 'Filterworld' is a sobering look at how algorithms shape what we buy, eat, listen to and watch
Review: 'Filterworld' is a sobering look at how algorithms shape what we buy, eat, listen to and watch
www.theglobeandmail.com Review: Filterworld is a sobering look at how algorithms shape what we buy, eat, listen to and watch
Filterworld is a timely and urgent interrogation of how the internet dictates our cultural taste and consumption
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Great book! I couldn't put it down. It's scary how much social media influences everything we do now.
Everyone gets the irony here, right?
Well, at least on lemmy the algo is open source, fairly simple, and not optimized for ad views.
I mean, we were doing this before algorithms. Advertising has existed for a very long time. Guess it’s more scary if you call it algorithms instead.