I don't think that effect will persist, and before long it'll be about as impressive as using a "meme generator" site. Already heading that way in some settings, as far as I can tell.
Nah, this will go the way of Microsoft Tay and Facebook's automated curation. 4chan will run the system to generate jokes for themselves, until Google finally kills it.
TechCrunch already applied it and they now have a total mess in their comments (although you see your friends' comments at the top which is nice). Do you think it will take off and eventually take over the market share of IntenseDebate/Disqus/Echo and others?
definitely not looking good. most of the people won't bother turning of the web history and will start hitting +1 like hell, and that would lead to the search results s personal that any variety would vanish. Anyone wondered how bad impact it would have on discovering new stuff? I mean, aren't we gonna start getting the same recommendation over and over? I mean, like, I read seomoz site a lot, and now, every single banner populated site I visit shows me smiley Rand's face :) I mean, I like the guy, and stuff he does, but, you get the point...
Outrage now. In 2 years we'll have forgotten what it was like before every website in the world did this. In 5 years your toaster will have people personality and you will fucking hate it.
Funny. Clever. But ultimately this is letting someone else control where you go, so could turn into people spamming their own content or sending people to disturbing content. Looks like the kind of thing that will be amusing for a week before it goes steeply downhill.
It's only gonna get worse, as future training will include its own bs outputs which will soon dominate the web masquarated as user comments, original posts, and so on
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