>>118504626That's not the claim you made regarding the influence of AI on products and consumption.
>Whether it is most profitable overall to take your money now or later can depend on your risk of getting sick based on what food and media you buy and when.>More and more products of all kinds are sold, or rather demand generated, using the AI that monitors and analyses each of us as individuals, and presents the details of our souls to more conventional statistical analysis mechanisms with no human oversight or intervention.You're claiming that those metrics and techniques are integrated in a way that has a far more active hand than is actually possible. AI and ML can of course, recognize who I am and what I do very well, but for that to have the impact that you suggest on products and consumption would require a tremendous amount of interconnectivity between the independent systems that my ISP, web companies, product manufacturers, and retailers have that doesn't exist.
These companies aren't going to establish free-flowing pipelines on what they've collected about me because they're independent actors. They take the snapshots and metrics that are convenient for their margins so far as their interactions with other companies are concerned, and leave out stuff that might be an inconvenience, that could say cause Target to order less cereal from General Mills, or Toyota to buy fewer ads on Facebook.
This is of course, irrelevant to the actual fucking question of how fandom is detrimental to consumption.
