“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…
Submitted 1 year ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/study-social-media-probably-cant-be-fixed/
“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…
Open social media is fine. Capitalism can’t be fixed.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 year 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 year ago
Ha yeah. The “AI” grift is a foundation for other grifts.