• yesman@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I don’t understand why the dislike button is important. Do you feel like you’ve lost agency over the algorithm? Or do you value the opportunity to publicly disapprove?

    Perhaps you trust that a like/dislike ratio is correlated to video quality.

    For my part, like, share, and subscribe are just different buttons in the Skinner box that is algorithmic entertainment. “Engagement” is free labor for to improve algorithms and train “AI”.