Doomscrolling || Acharya Prashant

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00:00People keep speaking about doomsday scrolling.

00:05There was a news report a couple of days back which said that an average person

00:10scrolls about four Mount Everest in the time that the way they are using their thumbs.

00:15What does the algorithm do? You talked of endless scrolling.

00:18The algorithm detects what gives me pleasure and feeds the same to me endlessly.

00:23And in return, it makes me watch a particular ad or set of ads, advertisements,

00:27expecting that I would then click or proceed and display a certain consumer behavior, right?

00:33Ask the same question to chat GPT on your own phone and on your friend's phone or your wife's phone

00:39or logged in from a different account and you will get a different response.

00:43Even AI is not really serving you the facts or the unbiased truth.

00:49It sees what you have been looking for, what your chat history is like

00:53and based on that, it serves you a certain response.