Dennis Yu

Algorithms

A fascinating story of one man’s transformation into a right-wing radical.

The author uses this extreme example to blame YouTube’s attention-hungry algorithm for creating radicals of all types. If I watch videos of people eating bacon, the algo will recommend more videos of people eating bacon– SURPRISE! You can use this same line of logic in any algorithmically-driven system that makes recommendations. If you watch a …

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