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“One problem is that platforms like YouTube, as well as Facebook and Twitter, derive their income from clicks and viewing time, not from user enjoyment. So an AI that sucks people into addictive conspiracy-theory vortexes may be optimizing correctly, at least as far as its corporation is concerned. Without some form of moral oversight, corporations can sometimes act like AIs with faulty reward functions.”
― Janelle Shane, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics,”
― Alberto Cairo, How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information

“if there’s no reason to care about aesthetics, an evolved machine will take any shape that gets the job done.”
― Janelle Shane, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place

“The more we cherish an idea, the more we’ll love any chart that corroborates it, no matter how simplistic that chart is.”
― Alberto Cairo, How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information