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mysharona1987 · 2 months
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ok, but sometimes the twitter algorithms are great.
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escuerzoresucitado · 1 year
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants, Aristid Lindenmayer and Przemysław Prusinkiewicz.
You can freely read it here.
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reasonsforhope · 1 month
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"Is social media designed to reward people for acting badly?
The answer is clearly yes, given that the reward structure on social media platforms relies on popularity, as indicated by the number of responses – likes and comments – a post receives from other users. Black-box algorithms then further amplify the spread of posts that have attracted attention.
Sharing widely read content, by itself, isn’t a problem. But it becomes a problem when attention-getting, controversial content is prioritized by design. Given the design of social media sites, users form habits to automatically share the most engaging information regardless of its accuracy and potential harm. Offensive statements, attacks on out groups and false news are amplified, and misinformation often spreads further and faster than the truth.
We are two social psychologists and a marketing scholar. Our research, presented at the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit, shows that social media actually has the ability to create user habits to share high-quality content. After a few tweaks to the reward structure of social media platforms, users begin to share information that is accurate and fact-based...
Re-targeting rewards
To investigate the effect of a new reward structure, we gave financial rewards to some users for sharing accurate content and not sharing misinformation. These financial rewards simulated the positive social feedback, such as likes, that users typically receive when they share content on platforms. In essence, we created a new reward structure based on accuracy instead of attention.
As on popular social media platforms, participants in our research learned what got rewarded by sharing information and observing the outcome, without being explicitly informed of the rewards beforehand. This means that the intervention did not change the users’ goals, just their online experiences. After the change in reward structure, participants shared significantly more content that was accurate. More remarkably, users continued to share accurate content even after we removed rewards for accuracy in a subsequent round of testing. These results show that users can be given incentives to share accurate information as a matter of habit.
A different group of users received rewards for sharing misinformation and for not sharing accurate content. Surprisingly, their sharing most resembled that of users who shared news as they normally would, without any financial reward. The striking similarity between these groups reveals that social media platforms encourage users to share attention-getting content that engages others at the expense of accuracy and safety...
Doing right and doing well
Our approach, using the existing rewards on social media to create incentives for accuracy, tackles misinformation spread without significantly disrupting the sites’ business model. This has the additional advantage of altering rewards instead of introducing content restrictions, which are often controversial and costly in financial and human terms.
Implementing our proposed reward system for news sharing carries minimal costs and can be easily integrated into existing platforms. The key idea is to provide users with rewards in the form of social recognition when they share accurate news content. This can be achieved by introducing response buttons to indicate trust and accuracy. By incorporating social recognition for accurate content, algorithms that amplify popular content can leverage crowdsourcing to identify and amplify truthful information.
Both sides of the political aisle now agree that social media has challenges, and our data pinpoints the root of the problem: the design of social media platforms."
And here's the video of one of the scientsts presenting this research at the Nobel Prize Summit!
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-Article via The Conversation, August 1, 2023. Video via the Nobel Prize's official Youtube channel, Nobel Prize, posted May 31, 2023.
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humanoidhistory · 2 months
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What does the algorithm know that we don't?
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warakami-vaporwave · 1 month
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danielhowell · 1 year
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A Dan and Phil divorce, a nun and a whole lot of inflating bum. We look back at the dystopian nightmare of this last year.. in memes ☆.。.:* 
The Top Dan Memes of 2022
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phlegm985 · 3 months
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Something really cool about the way tumblr works is it has progression. I’m cultivating a terrarium where the Beatles are transgenders and the dirt is screenshots from other websites and the greenery is cool fan-art
Also anti-terf reblog forcefeild
FUCK TERFS FUCK TERFS FUCK TERFS FUCK TERFS FUCK TERFS FUCK TERFS FUCK TERFS
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incognitopolls · 4 months
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Actions that influence the algorithm include clicking on videos/posts, liking or disliking, rewatching, commenting, etc. "Helping" the algorithm would mean doing more positive actions on things you like and dismissing or thumbs-downing thing you don't like.
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iusedtousemyrealname · 8 months
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Okay, hear me out, maybe we should let Tumblr do a little more algorithmic exploration. Because I just got recommended @nyancrimew​, the famous freedom hacker liberator of FAA ban lists security information specialist because they are like @is-the-post-reliable​, the semi-regular factchecker of bad posts. And I want to see the other kinds of connections Tumblr might make...
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YouTube: We’ll demonetize and or terminate your channel if you spread COVID-19 misinformation 😡
YouTube ads: (AI voiceover) This secret plant from the Amazon completely destroys type 1 diabetes 🔬🧪💊
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catgirl-catboy · 2 years
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What if the reason antis get confused about ‘gross shit’ being in the main tags is because they assume the main tags should be more algorithm-like?   That the ‘gross shit’ should sink to the bottom where it is never seen.   Bad news guys:  Most recent absolutely does not fucking work like that, and nobody has a clue how most popular works.
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xxvery-edgyxx · 1 year
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people need to make fun of anyone who objectively pays for twitter, elons making twitter into a website where you will only see verified account tweets and the verified accounts are the lamest people on the entire website 😭
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escuerzoresucitado · 8 months
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science70 · 3 months
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Paul Alexander, cover art for Algorithm by Jean Mark Gawron (Berkley Books, 1978).
This post marks ten years of SCIENCE70 (see the first post here), which means that this blog has now been around as long as the decade it ostensibly covers.
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lovestereo · 5 months
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mrsq8geek · 8 months
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can we please introduce a “if it isn’t tagged, tag it” culture on tumblr
“theres no algorithm, you’re the algorithm!” well if i see a shitpost about some media i like how am i supposed to find out what fandom to look for?? it’s three meme levels deep it’s not like reverse image search is gonna figure out that encryption.
just. if you see a post with nothing identifying the source, put it the in the tags for people like me?
i legit discovered a new comic because someone’s shitpost about it vibed with me and they had the character name in the tags, and even then it was a common sounding name so it took a moment to locate the comic but now i’m very happy i discovered. it, so please tag if you know the reference and no one’s done it yet
thanks, please take a vanilla extract for your scrolling journey
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