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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Social Dilemma is a 2020 docudrama directed by Jeff Orlowski. It explores the negative ways social media has impacted our world through interviews with various tech insiders (many of whom were formerly high-ranking members of popular social media apps) and academics. It also features a story about a family struggling with their children's social media usage, starring Skyler Gisondo and Kara Hayward. A visual representation of how the algorithm influences people is portrayed by Vincent Kartheiser.The film was released on Netflix on September 9, 2020.
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Discussed. One interviewee points out that the concept of an AI gone rogue might bring to mind high concept antagonists as seen in Terminator, but the AI we do have to be concerned about is all the data-gathering algorithms that run largely without human supervision over the consequences that people are exposed to. A segment of a TED Talk showed that the fear of a Robot War is when AI becomes more powerful that Human Strengths, but the AI they are talking about is when they become more powerful than Human Weaknesses. Because of the inherently faulty nature of AI, the claims from the social media companies that they need to build better AI sorting algorithms are dismissed by the people interviewed because they believe AI will always be faulty trying to make moral determinations. It was these same programs applied to a worldwide population that created the problem in the first place.
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Because of the inherently faulty nature of AI, the claims from the social media companies that they need to build better AI sorting algorithms are dismissed by the people interviewed because they believe AI will always be faulty trying to make moral determinations. It was these same programs applied to a worldwide population that created the problem in the first place.
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