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Re: Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Accounts for 13-Year-Olds, Tests Show

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Post by Jensson »

aydyn wrote: post #99
throwaway173738 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let’s stop with the semantics and get down to specifics.

I mean sure, the specifics are: It's not the Internet's or Society's job to raise your child. If you're a parent and you dont want your teen to look at adult instagram its your job to give them some rules and enforcement.

> It's not Society's job to raise your child.

It actually is, children are more raised by society than parents in general. Overall the environment has much more influence on children than the parents, that is societies job to make good environments for children, that is way too much for parents to handle.

Re: Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Accounts for 13-Year-Olds, Tests Show

#102

Post by ajsnigrutin »

usrnm wrote: post #70
ajsnigrutin wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it's different... you actually had to seek porn to find it back then (like stay up past your bedtime, turn on a relatively bad tv station, and sneak sticky magazines from somewhere. Now it's seeking you... open instagram, and you get porn ads, even if you're 13. On the other hand, boobs in shower gel ads were pretty normal back then, and noone really got excited by them. Also asses in thongs for suntan location (…

> you actually had to seek porn to find it back then You clearly haven't seen early Internet. Giant flashy banners with semi-porn content everywhere

Not really.. maybe on some seedy piraty ('warez' back then) websites.

If you visited whatever site agreggator was popular locally, and opened any of the sites in the first two pages of any category, you didn't get to see a single boob.

Re: Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Accounts for 13-Year-Olds, Tests Show

#103

Post by sandworm101 »

fallingfrog wrote: post #97
sandworm101 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If your algorithm can convince large numbers kids to snort cinnamon and eat tide pods for dinner, bending their perceptions enough for them to vote or not vote for something would be a piece of cake.

That’s just the worst reasoning I’ve ever heard. Your if.. then statement just doesn’t logically follow. Honestly this whole thing reeks of the satanic panic type moral scares of the 80’s or the anti communist rhetoric of the 60’s repackaged in new form. Moral panic over something or other is an American tradition; right now it’s tiktok but god knows why. Set yourself a reminder to come back to this comment in 10 yea…

Lol. Such manipulation is happening now, has been for over a decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica

"Using what it called "behavioral microtargeting" the company indicated that it could predict "needs" of subjects and how these needs may change over time. Services then could be individually targeted for the benefit of its clients from the political arena, governments and companies, providing "a better and more actionable view of their key audiences."

Re: Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Accounts for 13-Year-Olds, Tests Show

#104

Post by sva_ »

somenameforme wrote: post #86
sva_ wrote: post #36

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It is probably possible to manipulate people to further your political goals in an automated fashion using these technologies. In fact you can manipulate insane numbers of people in all kinds of ways with them.

This runs into a simple logical problem. The powers that be would love nothing more than to be able to do exactly what you're describing. And they have effectively endless resources at their disposal alongside dysfunctional intelligence agencies, a completely dysfunctional and obsequious media, and social media sites that have no doubt all signed up for PRISM and its likely even more insidious successors. Yet society…

> Yet society is absolutely, in no way whatsoever, becoming more compliant.

I'm not so sure. People are putting up with a lot of bullshit. Not saying that is due to social media though.

Re: Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Accounts for 13-Year-Olds, Tests Show

#105

Post by ocodo »

pizzathyme wrote: post #71
devsda wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Insta/FB/X/TikTok are all massive geo-political risks for a large number of countries. They have been called many times as tools for social engineering against governments. There is no good side in this debate.

Correct, this is why Insta/FB/X are banned in China.

It's also why a TikTok feed in China is vastly different from the sludge that other countries get from it.

Re: Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Accounts for 13-Year-Olds, Tests Show

#106

Post by gumby »

laweijfmvo wrote: post #46
gumby wrote: post #10

I am always surprised by articles like this. Instagram never recommends sexual videos to me .

The issue with even saying you don't like something seems to be that _everything_ contains some sort of sexualized being. Into fitness? here's a mostly naked person doing fitness. Hiking? Same. Gardening? Yup! Etc... How can the algorithm possibly disambiguate?

Humans…SMH… :-)

Re: Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Accounts for 13-Year-Olds, Tests Show

#107

Post by tennisflyi »

AlexandrB wrote: post #37
tennisflyi wrote: post #30

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Porn and OF are not similar. Porn is more of a job and OF a lifestyle

I don't follow. In my mind OF is just "democratized" porn that doesn't have to go through seedy producers/distributors. It's like Uber for porn.

The top of OFs is usually a couple gallivanting courtesy of simps dedicated to a model or producing content from their modern apartment while fucking/taking nudes thus lifestyle.

Riley Reid/agency models go from job to job as an IC and gets a check from the company via simps dedicated to a certain website.

The former is a much easier sell/explain and a bit easier to justify to puritans. It’s all very samey but different.

Re: Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Accounts for 13-Year-Olds, Tests Show

#108

Post by aydyn »

Jensson wrote: post #101
aydyn wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean sure, the specifics are: It's not the Internet's or Society's job to raise your child. If you're a parent and you dont want your teen to look at adult instagram its your job to give them some rules and enforcement.

> It's not Society's job to raise your child. It actually is, children are more raised by society than parents in general. Overall the environment has much more influence on children than the parents, that is societies job to make good environments for children, that is way too much for parents to handle.

I disagree.

Re: Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Accounts for 13-Year-Olds, Tests Show

#109

Post by fallingfrog »

sandworm101 wrote: post #103
fallingfrog wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s just the worst reasoning I’ve ever heard. Your if.. then statement just doesn’t logically follow. Honestly this whole thing reeks of the satanic panic type moral scares of the 80’s or the anti communist rhetoric of the 60’s repackaged in new form. Moral panic over something or other is an American tradition; right now it’s tiktok but god knows why. Set yourself a reminder to come back to this comment in 10 yea…

Lol. Such manipulation is happening now, has been for over a decade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica "Using what it called "behavioral microtargeting" the company indicated that it could predict "needs" of subjects and how these needs may change over time. Services then could be individually targeted for the benefit of its clients from the political arena, governments and companies, providing "a bet…

Boomer brain worms. If you really want to get rid of propaganda, you should take Fox News off the air immediately.
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