I wish that instead of just training another stupid LLM, Meta would use it to improve their search and help me find the content I'm actually interested in.
Their revenue depends on it being hard (but not impossible) for you to find the content you're actually interested in. Would be nice if it didn't, but in this reality, money on the Internet is made by wasting users' lives. That is what attention economy is about.
It's actually a mix. They need to disappoint the user for the right amount of time, to then please it at the right moment and dose. This maximizes the dopamine release and increases addictiveness.
When you find good content depends on when the algo judges you're already primed to a colorful dopamine intake.
this is like asking disney to reduce wait times for their rides. in other words, it is against content aggregation platforms' interest to let you get what you want directly.
