{"id":12229,"date":"2019-04-18T08:54:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T12:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=12229"},"modified":"2019-04-18T08:54:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T12:54:56","slug":"how-identity-politics-plays-right-into-the-hands-of-big-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/how-identity-politics-plays-right-into-the-hands-of-big-business\/","title":{"rendered":"How Identity Politics Plays Right Into The Hands Of Big Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Federalist<\/strong>, by Libby Emmons — April 16, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We categorize ourselves according to our chosen and or innate identifiers, but when big tech companies do it, and cater to what they have determined we want, we get irritated. Why? Isn\u2019t this what we want? Don\u2019t we want to be catalogued, classified, and commodified?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Identity has been a driving social and political force, and it makes sense that it would now become part of that other great institution of American cultural life: capitalism.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using AI for Tribalism<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Machine learning is the science of using algorithms and statistical models to essentially teach artificial intelligence (AI) to make choices based on predictive data, without further human input, such as using usage history to determine a user\u2019s future preferences, and prioritizing access to those preferences to the exclusion of others. This is how Facebook sorts the posts on a user\u2019s feed, and Amazon selects products a consumer might be interested in, or how Google gives different search information depending on who is signed in to the engine.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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