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Algorithms are used throughout the whole entire process in everyday life
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The Creepy Line

Algorithms are used throughout thewhole entire process in everyday life, everything from...

Algorithms are used throughout the
whole entire process in everyday life, everything from search
engines to how cars drive

Full Transcript

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Algorithms are used throughout the whole entire process in everyday life,
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everything from search engines to how cars drive.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
20
Timestamp in Movie
00:16:12
Uploaded
Oct 28, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Wandering Foot Productions

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Movie Summary

The Creepy Line reveals the stunning degree to which society is manipulated by Google and Facebook and how they do it.
The variables you decide, and when you have a human factor deciding - The Creepy Line 00:09
The variables you decide, and when you have a human factor d...
I want you to imagine walking into a room, - The Creepy Line 00:20
I want you to imagine walking into a room,
This might sound like science fiction, but this actually exists right now, today. - The Creepy Line 00:08
This might sound like science fiction, but this actually exi...
Our ethical presuppositions are built into the software, but our unethical - The Creepy Line 00:17
Our ethical presuppositions are built into the software, but...
I was a design ethicist at Google, - The Creepy Line 00:19
I was a design ethicist at Google,
What Google is essentially is a gigantic compression algorithm, - The Creepy Line 00:21
What Google is essentially is a gigantic compression algorit...
And so Google simplifies the world and presents the simplification to you, - The Creepy Line 00:18
And so Google simplifies the world and presents the simplifi...
The problem with that is that whatever the assumptions are that Google operates - The Creepy Line 00:13
The problem with that is that whatever the assumptions are t...
So, when you want to find something, a term, a person, do you Google it? - The Creepy Line 00:05
So, when you want to find something, a term, a person, do yo...
It's really fast, no doubt about that, - The Creepy Line 00:07
It's really fast, no doubt about that,
The algorithm that they use to show us search results, - The Creepy Line 00:26
The algorithm that they use to show us search results,
Let's say I type in, “What's the best dog food?” - The Creepy Line 00:16
Let's say I type in, “What's the best dog food?”...
So, the filtering is biased, because why did it pick those websites instead - The Creepy Line 00:18
So, the filtering is biased, because why did it pick those w...
It would be useless for us unless it was biased. - The Creepy Line 00:08
It would be useless for us unless it was biased.
That's precisely what we want. We want it to be biased. - The Creepy Line 00:06
That's precisely what we want. We want it to be biased.
So, the problem comes in, obviously, when we're not talking about dog foods, - The Creepy Line 00:08
So, the problem comes in, obviously, when we're not tal...
I am running for President of the United States. - The Creepy Line 00:07
I am running for President of the United States.
Because if we're asking questions about issues like immigration - The Creepy Line 00:12
Because if we're asking questions about issues like imm...
It's gonna do the filtering, so it's gonna do some selecting from among billions - The Creepy Line 00:10
It's gonna do the filtering, so it's gonna do some...
It will always favor one dog food over another, - The Creepy Line 00:16
It will always favor one dog food over another,