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submitted 22 hours ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

[–] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 8 points 31 minutes ago

Both are bad, one is worse.

[–] Filthmontane@lemmy.world 41 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, I forgot the other social media apps don't collect data and spew propaganda. Oh wait... They do.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 24 points 3 hours ago

Yeah but only for the benevolent western ultra rich oligarchs, so it's gucci.

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (6 children)

FTFY

edit : ooooh the wee St Petersburg trollies are tryin’ ta tryin’ ta ain’tcha!

News flash, responder-guys: if you’re even humans & not the AI bots who took most of your colleagues’ jobs, you’re still always be undervalued by your bosses. They’ll never, ever save you: they’ll save their Teslas and stock portfolios instead. Your life kinda sucks and there’s nothing you can do about it AND YOU CHOSE THIS LIFE, DIDNT YOU. Free yourself. Quit this shit job and go back to school before it’s too late.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

whataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhatabout tho?

(For anyone reading this in the future: they made that edit addressing "responder-guys" when the comment had only one reply lol 🤡)

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

nice try sweetcheeks but as predicted, a second came

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

Oh is that what you were doing? Predicting?

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[+] Lila_Uraraka@lemmy.blahaj.zone -17 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Factually untrue, the only person who has control of what the algorithm shows you on any social media is the end user. So say8ng that it is used to spread propaganda (which that's super vague), is blatantly false. Pretending otherwise is just being willingly ignorant to how the technology works. Hell, a 6 year old understands how the algorithm works and how to shape it. Plus, US based users have their data stored on US servers hosted by Oracle, China has no access to it. Do two seconds of research and you will see that I'm correct

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 3 points 27 minutes ago

LMAO, The company that makes the algorithm has control over what that algorithm "weighs" it's not that hard for them to tweak the values so it "weighs" whatever propaganda or content they want to push more of much higher than other content.

It's true, the end user does have some influence on the algorithm, but when they have it tweaked to "weigh" pro-CCP or pro-Right-wing trash much higher than other content it doesn't take much to end up falling back. For example, watching part of single pro-Trump video would make the algorithm push much more Trump trash where it would take 5 "normal" fully watched videos to continue showing "normal" videos.

And that's assuming the average user is even aware enough to influence it to that degree, which they don't.

Plus, US based users have their data stored on US servers hosted by Oracle, China has no access to it.

Yea, the data is stored in the US, but it still influences the TikTok US algorithm (because they have a separate algorithm for China ofc) which is still wholly controlled outside of the US

[–] Lila_Uraraka@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 51 minutes ago

Here is a video going over the bill in detail https://youtu.be/tMe3ZdWUnU8?si=-TSKsL2RW2wfzMsq

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