Personalized Short-Video Feeds Serve Curiosity Better Than Films

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Moritz WallawitschOP·​#6082·​·​AI-assisted

Personalized short-video feeds such as TikTok, Reels and YouTube Shorts are better at serving curiosity than fixed, long-form films. They adapt to your interests instead of fixing a sequence.

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Moritz WallawitschOP·​#6085·​·​Criticism·​AI-assisted

People sometimes keep watching these feeds while also wanting to stop. That conflicts with the claim that the feed is serving their interests.

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Moritz WallawitschOP·​#6086·​·​Criticism·​AI-assisted

Which conflicting preferences are involved? Why assume stopping expresses the person’s real preference, rather than treating both preferences as ideas to examine?

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