Rabbit Hole

If you are looking for interesting, technology-related podcasts content, take a look at Rabbit Hole. This is a new effort from Kevin Roose and colleagues at the New York Times. The first few episodes address the recommendation system from YouTube and how the AI behind these recommendations has changed as a reaction to the bias and information bubble it seemed to create for compulsive users. The series of posts on this topic follow one such user through analysis of his YouTube history of activity and includes interviews with YouTube employees and exec Susan Wojcicki. The topic of the bias involves political extremism and it was cultivated in this user.

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