Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Tiktok, for example, uses its "heating tool" to selectively boost things into your ...
Tiktok, for example, uses its "heating tool" to selectively boost things into your feed - not because they think you'll like it, but because they want to trick the person whose content they're boosting into thinking that Tiktok is a good place to distribute their work through:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys35/
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