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The variables you decide, and when you have a human factor deciding
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The Creepy Line

The variables you decide, and whenyou have a human factor deciding what the variables are,...

The variables you decide, and when
you have a human factor deciding what the variables are, it’s
gonna affect the outcome

Full Transcript

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The variables you decide, and when you have a human factor deciding
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what the variables are, it’s gonna affect the outcome.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:16:19
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.
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,
The Google search algorithm is made up of several hundred signals that - The Creepy Line 00:11
The Google search algorithm is made up of several hundred si...