It is the truth It is widely recognized that the “algorithm” knows you better than you know yourself. A computer is said to be able to predict whether you will quit your job or break up with your partner. With 1,000 words you write, it can determine your age within 4 years. And no algorithm seems closer to inclusiveness than TikTok, which is supposed to help users discover their gender and unpack their childhood traumas. While Facebook requires you to set up a profile and transfer a treasure trove of personal information in the process, TikTok simply Notification—It seems so. The results can feel magical, Jess Joho writes on Mashable, as if TikTok was “reading your soul like some sort of divine digital oracle, discovering open layers of your being that your own conscious mind had never known before”.
As always, there is a dark side. Most users will be sucked in WitchTok and gardening tutorials, but others will end up in an infinite scroll about ADHD, Tourette syndrome, or autism (e.g. #mentalhealth has amassed nearly 21 billion views — a fraction of #dance , has 341 billion views, but an important show nonetheless). This information can be extremely comforting, especially for conditions that are often masked by stigma. But some concerns about the discrepancy are raised for the background of fake psycho Content. “Once [the algorithm] Psychology professor Inna Kanevsky, better known on TikTok as debunking @dr_inna, “And it looks like you’ve been diagnosed.” It’s a potentially life-changing way created by a for-profit algorithm and content creators of varying credibility.
But the self-diagnostic debate is only a small part of how we position TikTok and similar algorithms as more than mere prediction generators but insights generators. While recommendation algorithms from Amazon to Netflix are designed to guess what you want to watch next, TikTok can feel as though it’s showing you who you’ve always been. In the process, we are opening ourselves up to risks and promises.”outsource self-perception to AI. “While this new relationship with computers may offer new opportunities for personal growth, it also begins to sort us into ever more difficult identities.
Human mind artificial intelligence expert George Zarkadakis wrote in his 2016 book In our own image. For example, in the Roman Empire, the success of hydraulic engineering led to the understanding of human intelligence as the flow of four “noises”. Now we describe The brain is like a computer—Just one of many machines that “store” and “retrieve” memories and “process information.” While all these metaphors remain deeply flawed, the close collaboration between human neuroscience and computer science has revealed some interesting similarities between our minds and machines.
Like any algorithm, TikTok’s fortune-telling properties are just the end result of a series of repeated steps. When someone creates a new account, the algorithm targets them with a variety of popular videos designed to test their reactions to a variety of content categories, from viral dances to home repairs. one recently The Wall Street Journal investigation. When the newspaper placed more than 100 bots on TikTok, the platform’s “rabbit” would capture every bot’s pre-programmed preferences in less than two hours.
It’s a pretty simple math, but it’s also a weird imitation of learning statistics, say John Bargh, a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University. It’s one way that the human mind unconsciously absorbs new knowledge — simply by noticing patterns in the world around it. Like the TikTok algorithm, people are learning all the time without even realizing it.
In other words, it is a process that takes place largely without one’s conscious awareness, and is determined entirely by what attracts your attention.
