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* AdultFear: The movie touches on everything from cyberbullying at a young age, increasing numbers of self-harm and suicide attempts, radicalization of teenagers and all the way to bringing up the Myanmar ethnic cleansing that was facilitated through Facebook.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Discussed. One interviewee points out that the concept of an AI gone rogue might bring to mind high concept antagonists as seen in ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', but the AI we do have to be concerned about is all the data-gathering algorithms that run largely without human supervision over the consequences that people are exposed to.
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* AdultFear: The movie touches on everything from cyberbullying at a young age, increasing numbers of self-harm and suicide attempts, radicalization of teenagers and all the way to bringing up the Myanmar ethnic cleansing that was facilitated through Facebook.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Discussed.
** One interviewee points out that the concept of an AI gone rogue might bring to mind high concept antagonists as seen in ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', but the AI we do have to be concerned about is all the data-gathering algorithms that run largely without human supervision over the consequences that people are exposedto.to. A segment of a TED Talk showed that the fear of a RobotWar is when AI becomes more powerful that Human Strengths, but the AI they are talking about is when they become more powerful than Human Weaknesses.
** Because of the inherently faulty nature of AI, the claims from the social media companies that they need to build better AI sorting algorithms are dismissed by the people interviewed because they believe [[BlueAndOrangeMorality AI will always be faulty trying to make moral determinations]]. It was these same programs applied to a worldwide population that created the problem in the first place.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: The fear of the data collection being misused by the companies or government is only briefly touched upon. Far more scary is seeing the algorithm combining GPS location, relationship history and new social developments in a desperate bid to get Ben back online.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Discussed.
** One interviewee points out that the concept of an AI gone rogue might bring to mind high concept antagonists as seen in ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', but the AI we do have to be concerned about is all the data-gathering algorithms that run largely without human supervision over the consequences that people are exposed
** Because of the inherently faulty nature of AI, the claims from the social media companies that they need to build better AI sorting algorithms are dismissed by the people interviewed because they believe [[BlueAndOrangeMorality AI will always be faulty trying to make moral determinations]]. It was these same programs applied to a worldwide population that created the problem in the first place.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Many of the people interviewed were early developers for various social media platforms, and are appalled at what their creations have gone on to become. The creator of the Facebook "Like" button laments that people can develop depression if their post doesn't get enough likes.
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* CivilWar: What tech expert who are interviewed fear what will happen to America within the near future. Already a country infamous for having two political parties vying for control each election, they fear that now in the digital age where political tribalism has become more prevalent, it will amount to ''scale civil conflict'' with both parties. May become HarsherInHindsight as more incidents involving political extremists and terrorists across North America emerge.
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* CivilWar: What tech expert who are interviewed fear what will happen to America within the near future. Already a country infamous for having two political parties vying for control each election, they fear that now in the digital age where political tribalism has become more prevalent, it will amount to ''scale civil conflict'' with both parties. May become HarsherInHindsight as more incidents involving political extremists and terrorists across North America emerge.
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''The Social Dilemma'' is a 2020 docudrama directed by Jeff Orlowski. It explores the negative ways social media has impacted our world through interviews with various tech insiders (many of whom were formerly high-ranking members of popular social media apps) and academics. It also features a story about a family struggling with their children's social media usage, starring Creator/SkylerGisondo and Creator/KaraHayward. \n A visual representation of how the algorithm influences people is portrayed by Creator/VincentKartheiser.
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* PeoplePuppets: A representation of the algorithm shows how its three parts, advertisement, engagement and growth, work to maintain influence on Ben. It initially starts as a generic digital avatar responding to the content being provided, but when Ben is unable to go more than a few days without his phone the avatar becomes Ben, seemingly suspended in air and with no will of his own.
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** The film explores first how tech companies are mainly concerned with profit, and how this profit-driven business model can be weaponized by bad actors. Not only does it lead to spreading conspiracy theories, it also plays a role in destabilizing many democracies by creating tribalism and election influence. The film even goes as far as showing that Facebook of all things was a tool for an ''ethnic cleansing'' in Africa.
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** The film explores first how tech companies are mainly concerned with profit, and how this profit-driven business model can be weaponized by bad actors. Not only does it lead to spreading conspiracy theories, it also plays a role in destabilizing many democracies by creating tribalism and election influence. The film even goes as far as showing that Facebook of all things was a tool for an ''ethnic cleansing'' in Africa.UsefulNotes/{{Myanmar}}.
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* CapitalismIsBad: The film's message is that because tech companies put profit before ethics, bad things happen.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Advertising, Engagement, and Growth are colored yellow, purple, and blue.
* {{Cyberspace}}: The business model for social media is demonstrated through three manipulative men within Ben's phone who react to all his online activity and try to keep him using the app.
* NuclearFamily: The family in the scripted story is a blended one, consisting of a mother, a father, and three children.
* SocialMediaBeforeReason: In the story, the family's youngest daughter Isla is so addicted to her phone that when her mother locks it away for a ''dinner'', she instead smashes the container and runs upstairs rather than eat without it.
* SocialMediaIsBad: ''The'' central theme of the documentary.
** The film explores first how tech companies are mainly concerned with profit, and how this profit-driven business model can be weaponized by bad actors. Not only does it lead to spreading conspiracy theories, it also plays a role in destabilizing many democracies.
* CapitalismIsBad: The film's message is that because tech companies put profit before ethics, bad things happen.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Advertising, Engagement, and Growth are colored yellow, purple, and blue.
* {{Cyberspace}}: The business model for social media is demonstrated through three manipulative men within Ben's phone who react to all his online activity and try to keep him using the app.
* NuclearFamily: The family in the scripted story is a blended one, consisting of a mother, a father, and three children.
* SocialMediaBeforeReason: In the story, the family's youngest daughter Isla is so addicted to her phone that when her mother locks it away for a ''dinner'', she instead smashes the container and runs upstairs rather than eat without it.
* SocialMediaIsBad: ''The'' central theme of the documentary.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Discussed. One interviewee points out that the concept of an AI gone rogue might bring to mind high concept antagonists as seen in ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', but the AI we do have to be concerned about is all the data-gathering algorithms that run largely without human supervision.supervision over the consequences that people are exposed to.
* CapitalismIsBad: A message the film makes is that tech companies put profit before ethics or their search engines (that seem perfectly innocent in concept) only end up dividing people by making them unexposed to other lines of thinking.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Advertising, Engagement, and Growth are colored yellow, purple, and blue respectively.
* CivilWar: What tech expert who are interviewed fear what will happen to America within the near future. Already a country infamous for having two political parties vying for control each election, they fear that now in the digital age where political tribalism has become more prevalent, it will amount to ''scale civil conflict'' with both parties. May become HarsherInHindsight as more incidents involving political extremists and terrorists across North America emerge.
* {{Cyberspace}}: The business model for social media is demonstrated through three manipulative men within Ben's phone who react to all his online activity and try to keep him using the app, all within a small room. A WhamShot the film has that emphasizes how many people are being manipulated by their phones are a countless array of similar rooms, all being similar duped for different reasons.
*CapitalismIsBad: The film's message is that GullibleLemmings: Why tribality has formed because tech companies put profit before ethics, bad things happen.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Advertising, Engagement,of the internet and Growth are colored yellow, purple, and blue.
* {{Cyberspace}}: The business model forsocial media is demonstrated through three manipulative men within Ben's phone media. Basically, it shows that only being exposed to certain groups with similar ideologies, people cannot acknowledge or are hostile towards those who react to all his oppose their ideologies. This results in conflict that may even escalate outside the online activity and try to keep him using the app.
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* SocialMediaBeforeReason: In the story, the family's youngest daughter Isla is so addicted to her phone that when her mother locks it awayfor a ''dinner'', during dinner, she instead smashes ''smashes'' the container with a hammer and runs upstairs rather than eat without it.
it. Ben in the story is also shown this but within a much subtler way as when he jumps back onto his phone despite promising his mother he would not because he wants to know how people at school are doing.
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* CapitalismIsBad: A message the film makes is that tech companies put profit before ethics or their search engines (that seem perfectly innocent in concept) only end up dividing people by making them unexposed to other lines of thinking.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Advertising, Engagement, and Growth are colored yellow, purple, and blue respectively.
* CivilWar: What tech expert who are interviewed fear what will happen to America within the near future. Already a country infamous for having two political parties vying for control each election, they fear that now in the digital age where political tribalism has become more prevalent, it will amount to ''scale civil conflict'' with both parties. May become HarsherInHindsight as more incidents involving political extremists and terrorists across North America emerge.
* {{Cyberspace}}: The business model for social media is demonstrated through three manipulative men within Ben's phone who react to all his online activity and try to keep him using the app, all within a small room. A WhamShot the film has that emphasizes how many people are being manipulated by their phones are a countless array of similar rooms, all being similar duped for different reasons.
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** The acting performance features a teen named Ben who struggles to disconnect with TheInternet and slowly becomes drawn into an online bubble of conspiracy theories. His younger sister Isla is also shown struggling with her self-image due to social media.
* ThereShouldBeALaw: The film suggests that the government should put more regulations on social media or people should not use suggestions made by search engines that influence their ideologies through automatic exposure.
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** The acting performance features a teen named Ben who struggles to disconnect with TheInternet and slowly becomes drawn into an online bubble of conspiracy theories. His younger sister Isla is also shown struggling with her self-image due to social media. \n Their elder sister gets into a violent confrontation at a Republican rally at the film's climax and though it is not shown also being manipulated by social media, it would not be out of the question she was as well.
* ThereShouldBeALaw: The film suggests that the government should put more regulations on socialmedia or media. Better yet, people should not use suggestions made by search engines that influence their ideologies through automatic exposure.
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''The Social Dilemma'' is a 2020 docudrama directed by Jeff Orlowski. It explores the negative ways social media has impacted our world through interviews with various tech insiders (many of whom were formerly high-ranking members of popular social media apps) and academics. It also features a story about a family struggling with their children's social media usage, starring Creator/SkylerGisondo Skyler Gisondo and Creator/KaraHayward.Kara Hayward.
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* ScareEmStraight: A lot of the film's claims run on fear-based, hyperbolic or even misleading arguments as well as simplified solutions to combat them. All of which is presented in a blatant horror-style of filming and soundtrack.
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* BrokenAesop: The film tries to sell a message that Social Media, Corporations and Capitalism is terrible, but it all runs on a single theme that the film ends up selling that make those messages possible in the first place: People have no agency over their own lives or their choices.
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* BrokenAesop: The film tries to sell a message that Social Media, Corporations and Capitalism is terrible, but it all runs on a single theme that the film ends up selling that make those messages possible in the first place: People have no agency over their own lives or their choices.
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users': illegal drugs and software."''\\
— Edward Tufte]]
->''"Social media is a marketplace that trades exclusively in human futures."''
-->-- '''Shoshana Zuboff'''
''The Social Dilemma'' is a 2020 docudrama directed by Jeff Orlowski. It explores the negative ways social media has impacted our world through interviews with various tech insiders (many of whom were formerly high-ranking members of popular social media apps) and academics. It also features a story about a family struggling with their children's social media usage, starring Creator/SkylerGisondo and Creator/KaraHayward.
The film was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on September 9, 2020.
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!!Tropes in this film:
* AIIsACrapshoot: Discussed. One interviewee points out that the concept of an AI gone rogue might bring to mind high concept antagonists as seen in ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', but the AI we do have to be concerned about is all the data-gathering algorithms that run largely without human supervision.
* CapitalismIsBad: The film's message is that because tech companies put profit before ethics, bad things happen.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Advertising, Engagement, and Growth are colored yellow, purple, and blue.
* {{Cyberspace}}: The business model for social media is demonstrated through three manipulative men within Ben's phone who react to all his online activity and try to keep him using the app.
* NuclearFamily: The family in the story is a blended one, consisting of a mother, a father, and three children.
* SocialMediaBeforeReason: In the story, the family's youngest daughter Isla is so addicted to her phone that when her mother locks it away for a ''dinner'', she instead smashes the container and runs upstairs rather than eat without it.
* SocialMediaIsBad: ''The'' central theme of the documentary.
** The film explores first how tech companies are mainly concerned with profit, and how this profit-driven business model can be weaponized by bad actors. Not only does it lead to spreading conspiracy theories, it also plays a role in destabilizing many democracies.
** It also touches on how social media negatively affects mental health, and how it can be linked to rising teen suicide rates.
** The acting performance features a teen named Ben who struggles to disconnect and slowly becomes drawn into an online bubble of conspiracy theories. His younger sister Isla is also shown struggling with her self-image due to social media.
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users': illegal drugs and software."''\\
— Edward Tufte]]
->''"Social media is a marketplace that trades exclusively in human futures."''
-->-- '''Shoshana Zuboff'''
''The Social Dilemma'' is a 2020 docudrama directed by Jeff Orlowski. It explores the negative ways social media has impacted our world through interviews with various tech insiders (many of whom were formerly high-ranking members of popular social media apps) and academics. It also features a story about a family struggling with their children's social media usage, starring Creator/SkylerGisondo and Creator/KaraHayward.
The film was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on September 9, 2020.
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!!Tropes in this film:
* AIIsACrapshoot: Discussed. One interviewee points out that the concept of an AI gone rogue might bring to mind high concept antagonists as seen in ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', but the AI we do have to be concerned about is all the data-gathering algorithms that run largely without human supervision.
* CapitalismIsBad: The film's message is that because tech companies put profit before ethics, bad things happen.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Advertising, Engagement, and Growth are colored yellow, purple, and blue.
* {{Cyberspace}}: The business model for social media is demonstrated through three manipulative men within Ben's phone who react to all his online activity and try to keep him using the app.
* NuclearFamily: The family in the story is a blended one, consisting of a mother, a father, and three children.
* SocialMediaBeforeReason: In the story, the family's youngest daughter Isla is so addicted to her phone that when her mother locks it away for a ''dinner'', she instead smashes the container and runs upstairs rather than eat without it.
* SocialMediaIsBad: ''The'' central theme of the documentary.
** The film explores first how tech companies are mainly concerned with profit, and how this profit-driven business model can be weaponized by bad actors. Not only does it lead to spreading conspiracy theories, it also plays a role in destabilizing many democracies.
** It also touches on how social media negatively affects mental health, and how it can be linked to rising teen suicide rates.
** The acting performance features a teen named Ben who struggles to disconnect and slowly becomes drawn into an online bubble of conspiracy theories. His younger sister Isla is also shown struggling with her self-image due to social media.
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