Netflix: How did it know I was bi before I did?
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Tech recommendations can reveal more about us than we know ourselves - but how and why does this happen?
    • Madison_rogue@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      Seriously though, she chose a show that was randomly chosen by the algorithm, she watched it, and more content of that type was suggested to her by the algorithm.

      This isn’t quite rocket science.

        • shinjiikarus@mylem.euEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Has this story ever been confirmed by Target directly? As this happened in America and her father was outraged about it, it would have been awfully convenient, to “blame” the algorithm for “discovering”, she was pregnant. It takes quite a data analyst to figure out trends before someone even knows they are pregnant. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out a pattern for someone if they know they are pregnant and are just hiding it from their dad.

  • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Headline: How did Netflix know I was gay before I did?

    Sub header: After BBC reporter Ellie House came out as gay, she realised that Netflix already seemed to know. How did that happen?

    THE FIRST FUCKING LINE OF THE FUCKING ARTICLE: I realised that I was BISEXUAL in my second year of university, but Big Tech seemed to have worked it out several months before me.

    flag-bi-pride honk-enraged

    • The Octonaut@mander.xyz
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      2 years ago

      Gay is a happily accepted term for “penis+penis”, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, whatever, in the UK & Ireland. It is basically “not straight”; you can think of it as the British word for ‘queer’, because ‘queer’ still often means, well, queer. I wish you would respect British people’s choice of how they identify; America’s obsession with clinical and distinct labeling hasn’t claimed this particular lingual nuance yet. Not everything is an attack on your chosen identity.

    • DonnieDarkmode@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I’ve noticed that “gay” is used as a more general term for members of the LGBTQ+ community, similar to how “guys” has a pretty common gender-neutral usage

      EDIT: tweaked the wording a bit

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 years ago

        “Guys” hasn’t actually been accepted as gender neutral for a number of years, due to its implicit anti-feminist bias (you’ll fit in if you act like us men).

        I struggle with not using it constantly, as it was the go-to gender neutral term for my generation.