Twitter meets TensorFlow
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Twitter meets TensorFlow
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#2> Machine learning enables Twitter to drive engagement, surface content most relevant to our users, and promote healthier conversations.
One that wants to manipulate your mind, one that echochambers your discovery, one that censors arbitrarily.
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#3PR sucks. It looks like PR.
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#4> Machine learning enables Twitter to drive engagement, surface content most relevant to our users, and promote healthier conversations. One that wants to manipulate your mind, one that echochambers your discovery, one that censors arbitrarily.
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#5> Machine learning enables Twitter to drive engagement, surface content most relevant to our users, and promote healthier conversations. One that wants to manipulate your mind, one that echochambers your discovery, one that censors arbitrarily.
I’m not even sort of interested in what Twitter’s heavy-handed definition of “healthy conversations” are.
I dare say they’re acting well outside of their wheelhouse. Their job is to provide a platform for discussion, not whatever that mess of corpspeak I just read is.
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#6I always enjoy browsing the Twitter Engineering blog because of 1) the granular detail that they give 2) the concise, organized format that the information is presented, and 3) because I love their creativity. However, the first sentence of this article "Machine learning enables Twitter to drive engagement, surface content most relevant to our users, and promote healthier conversations. As part of its purpose of advancing AI for Twitter in an ethical way, Twitter Cortex is the core team responsible for facilitating machine learning endeavors within the company" is a complete turn off. Keep it technical. Leave the Marketing/PR out of it.
- Regular blog.twitter.com/engineering reader
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#7> Machine learning enables Twitter to drive engagement, surface content most relevant to our users, and promote healthier conversations. One that wants to manipulate your mind, one that echochambers your discovery, one that censors arbitrarily.
Just to play Devil's advocate:
One that wants to manipulate your mind
Like your post here? Or my present reply to it? And so on...
one that echochambers your discovery
Which is good, because nobody has enough time in the day to process every conceivable byte of information they might stumble across...
one that censors arbitrarily
OK, because while everyone may have the right to speak freely, not all speech needs to be heard by everyone...
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#8> Machine learning enables Twitter to drive engagement, surface content most relevant to our users, and promote healthier conversations. One that wants to manipulate your mind, one that echochambers your discovery, one that censors arbitrarily.
Just to play Devil's advocate: One that wants to manipulate your mind Like your post here? Or my present reply to it? And so on... one that echochambers your discovery Which is good, because nobody has enough time in the day to process every conceivable byte of information they might stumble across... one that censors arbitrarily OK, because while everyone may have the right to speak freely, not all speech needs to b…
The idea is I have a timeline and am able to choose what's on it. Good, bad, ugly. It's up to me. If I don't like what someone's saying I unfollow, mute or block. Easy.
With Twitter, FB, and modern social media, they let their algorithm decide what I should see. They think they know what people want and ultimately what's best for me. I disagree with this so I opt-out of their services. Sadly. Because there are ( or were ) a lot of interesting and novel voices on there.
Also, I suppose at a certain point those 3XXX employees need to justify their existence.
And yes it's their prerogative to do whatever they want with their product. And yes I know private companies are not bound by the 1st Amendment.
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#9> Machine learning enables Twitter to drive engagement, surface content most relevant to our users, and promote healthier conversations. One that wants to manipulate your mind, one that echochambers your discovery, one that censors arbitrarily.
I’m not even sort of interested in what Twitter’s heavy-handed definition of “healthy conversations” are. I dare say they’re acting well outside of their wheelhouse. Their job is to provide a platform for discussion, not whatever that mess of corpspeak I just read is.
Those 3000 employees need to justify their jobs.
What better way than program a robot to decide what 'healthy conversations' are.
Dorsey's capitulation to the complaint army over his recent chicken sandwich says it all.
I do see the hate mobs calming down ( or being ignored ), eventually, but when that happens we know Dorsey and a lot of these CEOs have little or no backbone.
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#10> Machine learning enables Twitter to drive engagement, surface content most relevant to our users, and promote healthier conversations. One that wants to manipulate your mind, one that echochambers your discovery, one that censors arbitrarily.
I thought I was about to read some satire based on that quote.
Turns out it's not.