2026-07-12 17:48 UTC
"Internal documents showed the companies had deliberately sought out “casino science” to turn their products into what Lanier calls “addiction machines”… giving their users little unpredictable dopamine hits, just like slot machines… A 2012 Google memo about YouTube said its “goal is not viewership; it’s viewer addiction”… “These are attention casinos,” [another Google document] read. “The house always wins.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/12/mark-lanier-the-lawyer-who-took-on-meta-and-google-and-won-interview
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@tmw@ioc.exchange 2026-07-12 18:19
@peter@toot.cafe google and meta are awful, but the "AI shadow jury" stuff is also disgusting. it's hard to like anything about this (except, of course, the possibility that the social media companies are actually held accountable)