A pretty good documentary. Get to the bottom of the dark side of contemporary Internet technology companies to the public and hit the core: these high-tech companies make users obsessed with their apps, treat users' attention as a commodity, and sell it to advertisers, which is an important source of income for companies. To capture more benefits, companies need to continuously increase the attention level of users, which will manipulate them and make them addicted. The way to make it addictive is to use algorithms to build models that keep pushing users toward what they are interested in. However, the algorithm has its own logic, which is not all in the hands of the developer. In this constant push, extreme views quietly appear in the information flow because the algorithm finds that extreme views can attract people's attention. As the user's clicks increase, extreme views gradually occupy the user's entire field of vision, making him think that he is correct, but as everyone knows, this self-righteous view has divided the world. Or rather, the algorithms and platforms that control the flow of information, driven by economic interests, are already dividing the world.
I grew up in the Internet generation, and the Internet has occupied a considerable part of my childhood, adolescence, and youth today. Here I am rejoicing, frustrated, and growing. We also deeply realize that the good times are already phantoms, and we have to coexist with them. How to grasp ourselves in the huge tide of information is a topic that must be considered in today's generation.
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