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The developers behind some of PC gaming's biggest hits discuss the state of our hobby and the biggest trends, risks and opportunities in PC gaming today.
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MANHATTAN, New York (KMID/KPEJ)- According to the Manhattan Police Department, YouTube recommends, and automatically plays videos that show step-by-step instructions on how to make a 'ghost gun' to children. A ghost gun is an untraceable firearm that is made out of synthetic materials that are put together and do not need any kind of background check to get, according to the NYPD and the District Attorney's Office, these videos are circulating on children's YouTube accounts without ever searching for the term. "So all these videos are now being suggested, just four minutes after searching 'Call of Duty' videos. A Tech Transparency project in 2023 also showed that after they made four YouTube accounts with profiles of 14-year-old and 9-year-old boys, and after playing 100 gaming videos, YouTube's algorithm started to recommend an instructional video on how to make a real ghost gun. Alvin Bragg, Manhattan District Attorney, and the Manhattan Police Department want to meet with YouTube CEO to talk about changing the algorithm. "This is not an accident, this is not just some byproduct of technology, this is an algorithm that is driving people, in particular, our youth with a few clicks, from watching a video game to being able to build guns, to then, in turn, walking around with ghost guns in our street," he said.
STORY: TikTok's algorithm has played a key role in the app's major success.Its unique content recommendation technology is what predicts which videos will pique user's interest.And it has attracted more discussion than the technology used by rivals, like Instagram and YouTube.Let's take a closer look at how it works.Before TikTok, many believed that technology built on users' social connections were the secret sauce to a successful social media app. Such technology helped Meta's Facebook and Instagram become widely popular.But TikTok showed that an algorithm that's driven by the understanding of a user's interest could be even more powerful.Reuters China tech correspondent Josh Ye explains."TikTok is a little different from the previous generation of social networks, where algorithms were built on top of what it called a social graph. But then with TikTok, it actually revolves around what it calls interest signals."While competitors have similar interest-based algorithms, TikTok is able to turbocharge its effectiveness with the short video format."If you think about YouTube, the average length of a video is about 10 minutes. So the user interaction with it is a lot more stagnant when it compares to TikTok where you get 10 second videos, right? If you're scrolling through it and you like it or you follow it, that's sending through a lot of different data points to TikTok, which can determine whether this really suits your interest. So the speed at which it collects this data is unprecedented compared to a previous generation or social networks."But it's not just about feeding users what they want. TikTok also regularly recommends content that falls outside of users' interest, which the company has said is essential to TikTok's user experience.TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance was also an early adopter of the so-called tagging strategy."Through our conversations with some of the ex-ByteDance employees, we realized that there's one very unique advantage that TikTok has over the Western social media platforms, which is they focused very early on tagging or labeling every user and as well as every video that's on their platform. And they not only do it through machine vision. But then they also actually hire a bunch of people to manually, laboriously annotate a lot of these kind of content and user profiles on their platform. And as you know, in China the labor cost is a lot cheaper. So ByteDance can afford to be deploying this strategy very quickly and at a large scale or more so than its Western counterparts."
President Biden has signed legislation that forces ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, to either divest its operations or face a ban in the US. Xcel Brands CEO & ORME Co-Founder Robert D'Loren joins Yahoo Finance to discuss what the legislation means for content creators and brands moving forward. D'Loren acknowledges TikTok's status as "one of the most important social media platforms" for brands and influencers, offering opportunities for business growth and exposure. However, with uncertainty looming over TikTok's future in the United States, D'Loren advises users to "hope for the best, plan for the worst." Highlighting the resilience of the creative community, D'Lorene emphasizes their adaptability stating, "never underestimate a crowd." Even in the event of a TikTok ban, he expresses confidence that creators would find "the next best platform" to maintain their presence. "I think we're going to see more and more people, given the uncertainty with TikTok, beginning to migrate to new platforms," he tells Yahoo Finance. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Yahoo Finance. This post was written by Angel Smith
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