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Group shopped and insta carted same store and got 4 to 7 diff prices same items. Instacart is trying to find perfect price point and make money above what target prices say. Algorithms are used to determine what people will actually pay. h/t Coastie Patriot
MrBeast could be the final social-media megastar. MrBeast’s former manager says the age of social-media superstars is fading Reed Duchscher, MrBeast’s former manager, says we won’t see another MrBeast-scale creator soon. As social algorithms focus on individual interests, it’s harder for creators to achieve a broad reach. Influencers who stick to a niche are well-positioned …
SKYNET SMILES: Europe faces Robocop-style dystopia by 2035, EU police claim. Angry mobs of unemployed citizens riot in the streets against the hordes of service robots that have stolen their jobs. Police officers armed with “robo freezer guns” and “nano net grenades” shoot down swarms of drones deployed by terrorists to attack electricity and water supplies. …
When the people who shape the news begin losing control of their own words, a civilization begins to go blind. For decades the American media operated like a single nervous system, one pulse of messaging, one rhythm of outrage. But this week, a series of quiet stories revealed just how fractured that system has become. …
BREAKING: 🚨 MINORITY REPORT GOES LIVE IN BRITAIN: “MURDER PREDICTION” SOFTWARE BEING TESTED 🚨 🔴 The UK government is building software to predict if someone will be a future killer — even if they’ve never committed a crime. 🧠 Using personal data from police, health records & probation services, they’re creating risk profiles — in …
Crucially, the estimates are an approximation based on several simplifying assumptions and limited data. The data we have from RealPage and Zillow measure both algorithm usage and rental prices at the level of a metro area, and not at the level of a rental unit. But in reality, the costs to renters of landlords using …
Oh look, the biggest search engine monopoly on planet earth is openly admitting it rigs its algorithms to benefit Kamala https://t.co/8ObT5BYNQ8 — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) September 9, 2024 Per O’Keefe Media Group: “Google was essentially promoting through its ads rhetoric that was very pro-Kamala,” admits Dakota Leazer, a Growth Strategist at Google, during an undercover date …
The Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that it’s ordering eight companies that offer AI-powered “surveillance service pricing” to turn over information about the potential impact these products have on privacy, competition and consumer protection. With this investigation, the agency is seeking to learn more about how artificial intelligence and other technologies are being used …
Just a reminder that if Elon never bought Twitter, the algorithms never would have been changed, and the broader public would still be asleep. Most of the content in your feeds would not be there, and your favorite accounts would still be suspended. The shift we are seeing in… pic.twitter.com/AGGW4owaSw — Clandestine (@WarClandestine) June 12, …
via Reclaim The Net: “Responsibility” is a good word. It’s even better as an actual thing. But even just as a word, it’s a positive one. It signals that reliable people/entities are behind some project, or policy. So no wonder then, that the thoroughly disgraced Google/YouTube – as far as censorship and biased political approach …
Tyrant Jacinda Ardern has been appointed to a new censorship role at Harvard University… Her role will be to use AI algorithms to make government “The single source of truth”… Ardern claims “Emerging technologies such as AI present huge opportunities for governments” pic.twitter.com/OeKNckWi84 — Pelham (@Resist_05) July 26, 2023