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Post #1149480

2026-04-13 17:51 UTC

I just finished Code Dependent, which was really good until the last chapter. There, it took a turn into just operating under the assumption that AI is an inevitable and inescapable part of technology. But you can't solve non-technical problems with tech. Uber's algorithm is biased in the company's favor, but it was the refusal to follow the law and VC business model that makes them so destructive. FB could have done so many different things around moderation, but they made decisions

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  • @bomkatt@ohai.social 2026-04-13 17:51

    To priorize traffic over everything to capture revenue. And on and on and on. Granted, it was published in 2024 while the "LLM = AI" PR stuff was still underway, so the author does mean AI broadly.

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