The business model is keeping people online and engaged as much as possible to sell targetted marketing. You take away the engagement and impressions and revenue goes down. Every form of regulation will be subverted with malicious compliance and nothing will change because the only alternative is to take a massive reduction in profits. These foreign companies have too much power, no respect for our society, and people are unwilling to change their habits.
My brother was watching LLM-generated videos that were engineered specifically for this purpose; a few days ago I called him out on all the negativity in the videos he was watching, he got angry and started searching through the recommendations for anything positive to watch and only found celebrity videos.
Two days later, all the negative GenBS videos were gone and he was watching a narrated science video,
The business model is keeping people online and engaged as much as possible to sell targetted marketing. You take away the engagement and impressions and revenue goes down. Every form of regulation will be subverted with malicious compliance and nothing will change because the only alternative is to take a massive reduction in profits. These foreign companies have too much power, no respect for our society, and people are unwilling to change their habits.
It doesn’t take much to break their engagement.
My brother was watching LLM-generated videos that were engineered specifically for this purpose; a few days ago I called him out on all the negativity in the videos he was watching, he got angry and started searching through the recommendations for anything positive to watch and only found celebrity videos.
Two days later, all the negative GenBS videos were gone and he was watching a narrated science video,