Imagine this:<br>You decide to bring a new peanut butter on the market.<br>Using machine learning and big data you tweak the ingredients to create without doubt the best tasting peanut butter ever created.<br>After a couple of years you have the number one selling peanut butter.<br>High fives and much happiness at the company.<br>Not wanting to rest on your laurels, you keep using the latest AI techniques to further improve the taste.<br>Some time later you notice something strange. The sales keep increasing, far beyond the levels of the previous top seller.<br>You do some market research and find out that people are now consuming enormous amounts of peanut butter. They're having for breakfast, lunch and dinner and are also snacking on it in between. In short, they're becoming addicted to the peanut butter.<br>This brings up some moral dilemmas (or perhaps not) at the company. On the one hand, it's great that you're selling a lot of peanut butter. But how much is too much for a person? You're not using any illegal ingredients, it's just just that you've managed to "hack" people, using AI, to consume huge amounts......... thoughts?,(reply>), @Dazzer1234567 Yeah I completely agree with you,I just made that as an example of what they could easily do. I don't think they're stupid enough to do it cause it would be fairly easy for someone on the inside to expose them on it,but its just the fact they have the ability to do that is actually insane. But I agree google literally looks at humanity as if were lab rats constantly pushing boundaries they really shouldn't but will because they get more money in their pocket at the end of the day. I mean shit every monetized video on this platform is split in half money wise,creator gets 50% and they collect the other half.,(reply>), @chaBOT I don't think Youtube is trying to control people for any evil master plan, but the decisions they make are purely driven by economics and the bottom line. I used to be a fan of Google and to some extent Facebook, but years ago i thought they took a sinister direction. For example, what is the benefit to the user that a new film starts automatically after the film they chose ends? There is no benefit. How good does search need to be on Google? So good that the person searching barely needs to think anymore? Who benefits from that? I think their "do no evil" slogan can now safely be replaced with "do stuff for maximum profit". How big and rich do Google and Facebook need to be? How many markets do they need to dominate? How much is enough? At what point do they draw the line in sand and put people before profit? They never will, because they know the competition won't draw that line. I don't understand how these smart people like this guy or Yann LeCun can do the jobs they're doing, then go home and look their family in the eye while knowing that they're performing some reckless experiment on humanity and still have a good night's sleep...........,(reply>), Its all manipulation at some point. The more and more AI learns to persuade our behavior by suggesting certain content they can find the people who are easily manipulated by seeing if randomly suggested videos do well when constantly suggested to a test group.For an example if this "test group" had 100 people who will watch randomly suggested videos more frequently then the normal user and of those 100 people 40% of them all frequently watch Logan Paul.Then I feel with that type of information YouTube can and will be able to manipulate a mass amount of people when its scaled across millions of viewers. With that ability they could theoretically control a portion of society just through machine learning and data.