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Ena 2022-03-24 09:02:27

"The Great Hack" focuses on digging deeply into FB's participation in political election events and talks about data right. The ethical problem in this film's description of the business model is more comprehensive and detailed, and the golden sentences are frequent. After watching it, there will be a kind of brain remolding. Feel:

If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product.

Their business mode is to keep people engaged on screen, but what you don't realize is they are competing for your attention.

They sell certainty.

Team of engineers whose job is to hack people's psychology.

They build models that predict our actions, and whoever has the best model wins.

It's the gradual, slight, imperceptible change in your own behavior and perception that is the product.

Their are only two industries call their customers “users”: illegal drugs and softwares.

So, to sum up: Our country has seen this through long ago, that is, we have always insisted on not letting them in.

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The Social Dilemma quotes

  • Justin Rosenstein - Facebook, Former Engineer: We live in a world in which a tree is worth more, financially, dead than alive, in a world in which a whale is worth more dead than alive. For so long as our economy works in that way and corporations go unregulated, they're going to continue to destroy trees, to kill whales, to mine the earth, and to continue to pull oil out of the ground, even though we know it is destroying the planet and we know that it's going to leave a worse world for future generations. This is short-term thinking based on this religion of profit at all costs, as if somehow, magically, each corporation acting in its selfish interest is going to produce the best result. This has been affecting the environment for a long time. What's frightening, and what hopefully is the last straw that will make us wake up as a civilization to how flawed this theory has been in the first place, is to see that now we're the tree, we're the whale. Our attention can be mined. We are more profitable to a corporation if we're spending time staring at a screen, staring at an ad, than if we're spending that time living our life in a rich way. And so, we're seeing the results of that. We're seeing corporations using powerful artificial intelligence to outsmart us and figure out how to pull our attention toward the things they want us to look at, rather than the things that are most consistent with our goals and our values and our lives.

  • Tristan Harris - Google, Former Design Ethicist: How do you wake up from the Matrix when you don't know you're in the Matrix?