Mark Zuckerberg’s Delusion of Consumer Consent
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#3Its only a delusion if you're naive enough to think he believes it. His output is much better understood as political, propaganda, and marketing exercises rather than good faith communication.
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#4I'm a little confused. When I looked at the study they linked, they don't pose an alternative question, like, "Or ads that aren't tailored to your interests." If you only ask if they want to see ads, wouldn't they obviously say no?
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#5The cited survey was from 2012. The questions were mostly in this vein:
x 64% of Americans say their likelihood of voting for a candidate they support would decrease (37% say decrease a lot, 27% say decrease somewhat) if they learn a candidate’s campaign organization buys information about their online activities and their neighbor’s online activities—and then sends them different political messages it thinks will appeal to them. [This activity is common during the 2012 election.]
Nowhere in the survey did they ask "would you rather see targeted ads or random ads?"
The results are still somewhat surprising, as clearly voters are not backing up these numbers at the polls.
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#6Regardless of how one feels about Facebook, has anyone stopped to ask why Facebook and Zuckerberg are getting such an avalanche of negative coverage from the mainstream media? Why have they suddenly united against him?
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#7Wow. This article got punished for some reason. I’d love to see the algorithm behind this if it wasn’t done by a moderator.
35 points in 34 minutes was #1 now #17.
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#8Regardless of how one feels about Facebook, has anyone stopped to ask why Facebook and Zuckerberg are getting such an avalanche of negative coverage from the mainstream media? Why have they suddenly united against him?
I think it’s as simple as: the general public will consume this because they’ve heard about the data breach and it’s something that will get their attention. I think it will last for a few more months and then they will find something else to write about as people will become agnostic towards anything Facebook related
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#9Wow. This article got punished for some reason. I’d love to see the algorithm behind this if it wasn’t done by a moderator. 35 points in 34 minutes was #1 now #17.
FB employees and/or "reputation managers" abusing the flag button, I'm guessing.
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#10I posted about this before and I think it's relevant here again. Automated personalization (Predominant existing implementation of AI) and privacy are incompatible [1].
That's the case that Zuckerburg is making. However he goes further and effectively says "...and this level of personalization is what people have told us they want."
Now this NYT piece says that, in fact, people have explicitly said they don't want that.
Doubly so when they understand what it takes to get that level of personalization. So the conversation is important, and I think people need to make it with clear eyes.
[1] https://medium.com/@andrewkemendo/artificial-intelligence-an...