“The [structural] mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve.”…
Funny that it basically raises Fediverse as the the solution without actually mentioning it…
Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
Submitted 1 day ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/study-social-media-probably-cant-be-fixed/
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BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Open social media is fine. Capitalism can’t be fixed.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Their methodology is so astonishingly flawed at the most fundamental level I had to read it twice.
They got a ton of LLMs to simulate how they thought real people would react to changes in their feeds.
The entire study is built on less than sand.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Ha yeah. The “AI” grift is a foundation for other grifts.