Meta’s new “personalization” policy is the perfect snapshot of our age — the promise of intelligence, reduced to a sales pitch. They say it will make your experience more relevant. What it really means is more profitable — for them.
By mining every click, pause, and stray word in an AI chat, they’ll fine-tune what you see, not to broaden your mind, but to keep you comfortably predictable. Instead of opening new windows, it closes the blinds a little tighter.
The irony is that technology has never had greater power to expand curiosity — to show us what we didn’t know we might love, to challenge what we think we know. But that takes courage and long-term vision. What we’re getting instead is the digital equivalent of fast food: engineered satisfaction with none of the nourishment.
If intelligence — human or artificial — is to mean anything, it should push us outward, not lock us in. The algorithm shouldn’t be our mirror; it should be our telescope.
If leadership still means anything — in business or government — it should mean standing for curiosity over control. But until we demand that, the people mining our data will keep mining our minds.
The Algorithm That Doesn’t Want You to Grow
The Algorithm That Doesn’t Want You to Grow
Meta’s new “personalization” policy is the perfect snapshot of our age — the promise of intelligence, reduced to a sales pitch. They say it will make your experience more relevant. What it really means is more profitable — for them.
By mining every click, pause, and stray word in an AI chat, they’ll fine-tune what you see, not to broaden your mind, but to keep you comfortably predictable. Instead of opening new windows, it closes the blinds a little tighter.
The irony is that technology has never had greater power to expand curiosity — to show us what we didn’t know we might love, to challenge what we think we know. But that takes courage and long-term vision. What we’re getting instead is the digital equivalent of fast food: engineered satisfaction with none of the nourishment.
If intelligence — human or artificial — is to mean anything, it should push us outward, not lock us in. The algorithm shouldn’t be our mirror; it should be our telescope.
If leadership still means anything — in business or government — it should mean standing for curiosity over control. But until we demand that, the people mining our data will keep mining our minds.
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