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Writing in a blog post summarizing a number of changes it’s making in the name of DSA compliance, Meta’s president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, avoided discussion of the downsides of its AI recommender systems — couching the non-personalized feed as another option for users to “view and discover” content:

The sight of social media giants like Meta and TikTok whose ad-funded business models depend on keeping eyeballs stuck to their platforms giving users options that are likely to be — in typical tech terminology — less sticky is a milestone indeed.

This is actually another compliance step since the DSA requires VLOPs and VLOSE to provide clear information about AI recommender systems, including detailing the main parameters and any options users have to modify or influence them.

Although, from Meta’s point of view, if it can persuade EU users to merely “customize” the algorithmic recommendations they get, rather than switching its “personalization” (i.e. surveillance) off altogether, it might be able to maintain or even increase content stickiness.

While Meta was early dabbler in ads transparency, thanks to (er) the Cambridge Analytica data misuse voter targeting scandal, it is being made to go further now as the EU law kicks in.

He merely opts to flag a change Meta made back in February — when it announced it had stopped targeting teens aged 13-17 with ads based on tracking their activity on its apps.

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