> The shape of our politics, our ideology, and even our fundamental grasp of how the world works is, in some substantial way, up to the algorithms. According to a recent survey from the Pew Research Center, a quarter of people under 30 in the U.S. regularly get their news from TikTok clips. That number is growing. People are even turning to social-media video as a replacement for Google search.<p>> Whether the results of such swipes and searches lead us to enlightenment or drag our worldviews further down toward their least reconciliatory, most conspiratorial depths depends in part on AI.<p>Honestly, what is the solution?, in the eyes of Capitalism, these Companies are the ultimate winners.<p>They are creating more revenue, more activity, crushing the competition other than themselves.<p>Who's going to stop this? especially that no matter how many users complain, the numbers are always going higher, and every monetary incentive is pushing companies towards this AI time blackhole with infinite mass surveillance.<p>You might say regulation, but why would the U.S. ever handicap its companies when they are basically the new U.S. worldwide influence tool?<p>No matter what the people vote, these companies have an infinite lobbying budget.<p>You and me might not use Tiktok, Instagram, Facebook, but let's be honest, we are increasingly the minority.<p>> If such a system could, say, rank videos by how happy they are, it might help elevate more positive content and subdue the darker stuff: less vitriol, more virtue.<p>Isn't this even more dystopian?<p>Imagine there is crisis in Afghanistan, or a nuclear Activity in the east.<p>The algorithm would just simply filter all of that out, and leave you living in that mindless unrealistic view of the world.<p>Yes I agree, the algorithms and news coverage are way too negative these days, but removing negativity is not the solution at all, it's basically blinding people from the truth.<p>Instead of promoting miss-info, you are now hiding the news completely.