I am sceptical of recommender systems—I think they are kind of bound to end up in self reinforcing loops. I’d be more happy seeing a more transparent system—we have tags, upvotes, the works, so you could have something like a series of “suggested searches”, e.g. the most common combinations of tags you’ve visited, that a user has a fast access to while also seeing what precisely is it that they’re clicking on.
That said, I do trust this website of all things to acknowledge if things aren’t going to plan and revert. If we fail to align this one small AI to our values, well, that’s a valuable lesson.
I am sceptical of recommender systems—I think they are kind of bound to end up in self reinforcing loops. I’d be more happy seeing a more transparent system—we have tags, upvotes, the works, so you could have something like a series of “suggested searches”, e.g. the most common combinations of tags you’ve visited, that a user has a fast access to while also seeing what precisely is it that they’re clicking on.
That said, I do trust this website of all things to acknowledge if things aren’t going to plan and revert. If we fail to align this one small AI to our values, well, that’s a valuable lesson.