“algorithmic Sabotage” ((install)) -

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We saw this with Facebook’s News Feed algorithm. For years, engagement was king. Saboteurs (political operatives, troll farms) learned that anger generated the most clicks. So they poisoned the feed with rage-bait. The algorithm, thinking "anger = relevance," amplified it. The saboteurs weren't hacking code; they were hacking the reward function. “algorithmic sabotage”

This is the true horror of algorithmic sabotage: Part V: The Feedback Loop of Collapse Here is the thesis you came for: Algorithmic sabotage is not a bug to be fixed. It is an emergent property of brittle optimization. Because We saw this with Facebook’s News Feed algorithm

At first, leadership blamed a glitch. But after a forensic audit, the truth emerged: a disgruntled data scientist had poisoned the training set. He had inserted a few thousand "ghost trips" into the historical data. The algorithm didn't know it was being lied to. It simply learned that circling a block was an efficient way to kill time before a phantom pickup. So they poisoned the feed with rage-bait