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They made computers behave like annoying salesmen

They made computers behave like annoying salesmen | exotext

After receiving a clear "no thanks" they deploy increasingly manipulative tactics to meet their "always-be-closing" quotas: "Would this Wednesday work better?" I understand that it's not the "YouTube program" having its own agency and making this decision - it's the team behind it, driven by engagement metrics and growth targets. The population (especially the younger generation, who never seen a different kind of technology at all) is being conditioned by the tech industry to accept that software should behave like an unreliable, manipulative human rather than a precise, predictable machine.

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