We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | Zeynep Tufekci
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Zeynep Tufekci recounts autoplay moving from vegetarianism to veganism. She offers retention as a hypothesis for the direction of travel, distinguishing an observed sequence from an inference about a proprietary system.
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I once watched a video about vegetarianism on YouTube and YouTube recommended and autoplayed a video about being vegan.Now, YouTube's algorithm is proprietary, but here's what I think is going on.