Reaction videos are videos of people reacting to something — a video game, cooking tutorials, natural phenomena, breaking news, and even gross-out porn. While some reaction video creators proclaim they make these videos as a time capsule of human sentiments for our descendants to discover, Mitch Therieau argues that the pioneers of reaction videos leaned into it hard because it was essentially self-propagating. These videos can be made about almost anything under the sun (including other reaction videos), extracting more content out of them. Read full article here
Societal Issues
AI Predicts Crime A Week In Advance With 90 Per Cent Accuracy
An artificial intelligence model built by Ishanu Chattopadhyay and his colleagues analysed crime data in Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and managed to predict future levels of crime down to the nearest 300 metres, a week before they actually happened. While extremely useful, this artificial intelligence has been shown to expose racial prejudice in law enforcement. Hopefully, as the study’s data and methodology have been made available for others to evaluate, these prejudices can be avoided in the next iteration. Read full article here
Merv
August 15, 2022
