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The Creepy Line

And that's what Google Docs is,and that's what Google Maps is, and literally now more than...

And that's what Google Docs is,
and that's what Google Maps is, and literally now more than a hundred
different platforms that Google controls

Full Transcript

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And that's what Google Docs is, and that's what Google Maps is,
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and literally now more than a hundred different platforms that Google controls.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:14:17
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.
Companies that use the surveillance business model - The Creepy Line 00:10
Companies that use the surveillance business model
They sell you! We are the product. - The Creepy Line 00:07
They sell you! We are the product.
Everybody knows that if you're going to search on Google and we're going to - The Creepy Line 00:18
Everybody knows that if you're going to search on Googl...
The commonality between Facebook and Google, - The Creepy Line 00:07
The commonality between Facebook and Google,
You sign on, you make a profile about yourself by answering some questions - The Creepy Line 00:23
You sign on, you make a profile about yourself by answering ...
The founders of these companies were essentially mathematicians who understood - The Creepy Line 00:19
The founders of these companies were essentially mathematici...
An algorithm basically comes up with how certain things should react. - The Creepy Line 00:06
An algorithm basically comes up with how certain things shou...
So, for example, you give it some inputs, be it in the case of Google, - The Creepy Line 00:13
So, for example, you give it some inputs, be it in the case ...
Algorithms are used throughout the whole entire process in everyday life, - The Creepy Line 00:09
Algorithms are used throughout the whole entire process in e...
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,