Welcome to the machine
summary
Overview of how data, ads and AI actually behave: platforms sell microtargeting like dark posts for political persuasion, GDPR mostly spawns popups not accountability, Cambridge Analytica-style profiling manipulates voters, and consumer devices map homes or stream voice to servers (Roomba, Alexa). Facial recognition in dense surveillance finds a person in 7 minutes, reputation sites sell full background reports for a few dollars, and ML products reproduce historical bias (Amazon recruiting tool, medical risk scores). Practical issues listed include censorship rulebooks, content moderators’ trauma, and repeated security bugs.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:43Amusing Ourselves to death
- 3:57A Brave New World
- 14:01And we help the keeper
- 14:42Algorithms
- 16:02The Human Side of Censorship
- 17:57What we generally don't do
- 19:1529 stages of a Twitterstorm
- 22:41Dark Posts
- 23:24Micro-targeting
- 26:49Scroll and refresh
- 33:54Default options
- 46:32Facial Recognition
- 49:29Maths and Data Modelling
- 52:01Accountability of Code
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