Andrea Jones-Rooy

And you're raising another really interesting and important point that I can't speak to in great detail because I'm not a lawyer.

But this is the crux of a lot of the issues with these social media platforms and even like the Google or search engines.

And we're also seeing it with LLMs.

is the fact that at least in the eyes of the law, the platform, so YouTube, Facebook, whatever, is not considered liable or responsible for the content on it is probably one of the reasons we don't see more movement towards something, Steve, like you're describing, like, you know, you have to be 18 to go in the casino and someone's going to hopefully come in and tell you to, I mean, I guess no one will, but...

You know, interventions to make make people not quite as susceptible.

And so I think, unfortunately, the YouTube or the YouTube or X or whatever is going to say, well, it's not our fault.

We just provide the platform.

It's the it's the content creators who are creating these things that people can't stop clicking on.

Exactly.

That also is going to prioritize things that people are... Because you're going to also get recommended things that are similar in topic or similar in ideology or similar in whatever.

But you're also going to get recommended the sort of...

Page-ranked type thing where you're gonna get recommended the ones that have been watched the most and so you're absolutely Advantaging videos that probably have really extreme claims or or fear-mongering or anger-mongering or something like that And so it's and I don't mind it like if I'm on YouTube watching a skeptical video And then there's a bunch of other skeptical videos or scientific videos or you know, it seems to know what I like pretty well Yeah, I actually like that.

I can also share anecdotally that I vastly prefer my boyfriend's YouTube algorithm than my own.

So I watch YouTube on my phone, but we have his YouTube, because he has YouTube premium or whatever, connected to our TV.

So if I'm upstairs just watching TV,

I'm watching YouTube on the TV.

I'm watching his algorithm.

And when we first set this up like a year ago, I was like, there's a lot of awesome stuff.

Like he gets like space content and tech stuff and keyboards and like all these cool things.

Mine is like Taylor Swift news because once I made the mistake of Googling her and that's all I ever see.