azuth89 t1_ir0l0lc wrote
The TikTok AI aggressively pushes what you interact with. If you're seeing a lot of sexual content it's because you're watching it when it pops up or otherwise interacting with it.
KDamage t1_ir0oahy wrote
It's right, but two details are missing :
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Tiktok, like every social platform lead by an algo, starts your suggestion algo with a "user profile estimation", as at first it doesn't know you. I made the experience, and for 40 minutes straight on my new (and first) Tiktok account, I couldn't stop receiving videos about fights, guns, military, while I'm absolutely not being interested in these topics and never really watched vids about it in other apps. It just estimated that I should be interested in it because of other people in my age, ethnicity and region. Question is : Why focusing on such violent topics ? Not all my demographic is focused on it, there are an infinite amount of other potential centers of interest.
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re : because you're watching it. A classic human behaviour is to stare into the abyss, instead of looking elsewhere. That's even how most user engagement methods actually work to keep attention, even if the topic is undesired (news mainly). Second question is : It's a very well known syndrome, why most social medias keep capitalizing on it while there are tons of studies correlating social media use with depression ? They should be held responsible of what they deliver, not their users more primitive brain regions. It's like saying to someone suffering depression "Well just stop being depressed".
Rauleigh t1_ir1ckc3 wrote
Yeah pornography and sexual content isn't inherently bad for young people but the lack of consciousness a the way social media skews young people's perception of reality is, including sexuality. I didn't spend a whole lot of time on social media when I was younger but I still got a lot of my assumptions about how to think about the world and people from media, which has been a struggle to unlearn having realized it is the source of a lot of anxiety and a factor in depression.
Humans are highly adaptive and dynamic animals. The vast majority of our physiology and intelligence evolved in dynamic 3d, social and ecological environments. The shift from a multi sensory engaging lifestyle or even just leisure experiences to almost exclusively audio visual experience, that also disrupts your bodies ability to properly sleep has got to have a negative effect on your mental health.
The pandemic was like a huge experiment in the highly virtual lifestyle and for a lot of people it was horrendous, and it's already showing significant negative impact on children. I have friends who work with kids and across younger age groups the kids struggle to think creatively for how to engage themselves, show decreased social skills and emotional management.
The speed that technology is developing is amazing, what's possible is increasing exponentially in the digital sphere. It's just that living human beings, our bodies and minds can't adapt fast enough to keep up without a cost.
KDamage t1_ir1wj2i wrote
Completely agree. It would take a lot of posts for me to explain in details, but I think AI, when it will be far more used in our personal digital recommandations (curating, filtering based on each individual sensibilities) will fix this. We're still in the industrial, massive content, non curated content age. Human moderation doesn't fit anymore.
Rauleigh t1_ir1zjpz wrote
You think curation will be the thing to improve it? O are you talking about algorithms that do the moderation for u?
KDamage t1_ir21mul wrote
curation based on insane levels of personlization, precisely (think brain signal levels of personlization). Indeed such levels of data collection can, and will be used badly for some companies, but there will be so many types of personalizations commercially available (as many as there will be types of AIs) that I think we will have the choice between toxic ones and extremely satisfying ones.
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