top | item 34802978 (no title) heartbeats | 3 years ago I don't think anyone is that advanced. As long as people watch it, they don't care. discuss order hn newest wkat4242|3 years ago They do, they use a "heating" button to promote content they gain the most money from.See this excellent article about platform enshittification by Cory Doctorow:https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys heartbeats|3 years ago Yes, but this is first-order thinking. That's common. The mechanism here is:"Content X directly makes TikTok/Amazon/etc more money [better ads]" -> more profitable -> show it more.Second-order thinking is much rarer, and looks something like this:"Content X makes people more reluctant to buy stuff from other places" -> less profitable for someone else -> ??? -> shut it down.This is much rarer. TikTok can run ads on both sorts of content, so we shouldn't expect this to be totally clamped down on.
wkat4242|3 years ago They do, they use a "heating" button to promote content they gain the most money from.See this excellent article about platform enshittification by Cory Doctorow:https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys heartbeats|3 years ago Yes, but this is first-order thinking. That's common. The mechanism here is:"Content X directly makes TikTok/Amazon/etc more money [better ads]" -> more profitable -> show it more.Second-order thinking is much rarer, and looks something like this:"Content X makes people more reluctant to buy stuff from other places" -> less profitable for someone else -> ??? -> shut it down.This is much rarer. TikTok can run ads on both sorts of content, so we shouldn't expect this to be totally clamped down on.
heartbeats|3 years ago Yes, but this is first-order thinking. That's common. The mechanism here is:"Content X directly makes TikTok/Amazon/etc more money [better ads]" -> more profitable -> show it more.Second-order thinking is much rarer, and looks something like this:"Content X makes people more reluctant to buy stuff from other places" -> less profitable for someone else -> ??? -> shut it down.This is much rarer. TikTok can run ads on both sorts of content, so we shouldn't expect this to be totally clamped down on.
wkat4242|3 years ago
See this excellent article about platform enshittification by Cory Doctorow:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
heartbeats|3 years ago
"Content X directly makes TikTok/Amazon/etc more money [better ads]" -> more profitable -> show it more.
Second-order thinking is much rarer, and looks something like this:
"Content X makes people more reluctant to buy stuff from other places" -> less profitable for someone else -> ??? -> shut it down.
This is much rarer. TikTok can run ads on both sorts of content, so we shouldn't expect this to be totally clamped down on.