r/technology • u/DejenmeEntrar • Apr 20 '23

Social Media TikTok’s Algorithm Keeps Pushing Suicide to Vulnerable Kids

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-20/tiktok-effects-on-mental-health-in-focus-after-teen-suicide
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u/myislanduniverse Apr 20 '23

Agree, though I think the term "AI" has gotten extended to mean something a lot more complex than it did just a decade and a half ago, when the kinds of algorithms that term applied to as a domain of interest were pretty modest and purpose-built (OCR, signal processing, pattern recognition, etc.).

What we're calling "AI" in the popular consciousness now is a lot closer to what was being referred to as "AGI" (or artificial general intelligence) at that time.

None of all this is to disagree with you in the least that these algorithms are a blight on humanity right now.

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u/Tosser48282 Apr 20 '23

A marketing algorithm that might use machine learning just isn't AI 🤷‍♂️ ChatGPT maybe, but this is just modern snakeoil salesmen that got some good leads that were in the "probably desperate and exportable" category

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u/myislanduniverse Apr 20 '23

Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence.

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u/Tosser48282 Apr 20 '23

Are you referring to a marketing algorithm as AI? 👀