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9 hours agoAlgorithms where?
There’s not one algorithm to rule them all … yet, but the platform and your interactions with it amplify over time, mainly in an attempt at creating “engagement”, ie. more opportunities to sell you shit, achieved by creating outrage and clicks.
When you watch a movie in public with native audio and subtitles and you speak or understand the audio language, you’ll often hear scattered laughter before the main audience laughs because often the subtitles have a delay for the punchline of a joke, which means that those who already heard the joke laughed at the moment it happened, not a second or more later when the subtitles arrive.
Most of the time the subtitles match the audio, sometimes they change a cultural reference, or infrequently completely get the translation wrong for no apparent reason which can become a new accedental joke all on its own. Then there’s weird ones where numbers like someone’s age or the time are wrong.
Source: I speak multiple human languages to various degree … and way too many technology ones. I’m also going deaf, so I have closed captioning on most of the time.