Twitter's Trending Page is Just Making Things Up Now

I'm worried about the AI-generated sludge-filled future of the internet.

Apr 06, 2024

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Back in 2016, Facebook sent the political world into chaos when it fired the humans who curated the social network’s trending feed, replacing it with an algorithm that simply listed the most popular posts on the site no matter where they came from. We may be seeing 2024’s version of this playing out in real-time on X (fka Twitter).

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