Facebook's news feed has recently been taken to task for the explosion of “fake news” that can have real consequences. Google returns different search results depending on who's asking and other factors. Music curation has moved from record labels and radio stations to increasingly AI-based algorithms.
We are all accustomed to this intrusion of machine intelligence into our lives over the past decade — systems watching our behavior and trying to infer what we want, and then combining such information with that from other sources so as to create a complex consumer profile that is valuable to advertisers.
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