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Which of the following is not a correct statement made in the documentary?
"You can get Coronavirus by eating Chinese food."
"Photo Tagging" is, at its worst
A deep-seated subliminal way to attract the attention of a FaceBook user
"Photo Tagging" is, at its worst,
A deep-seated subliminal way to attract the attention of a FaceBook user
Which of the following statements is reflected in the documentary with regard to "AI" - Artificial Intelligence?
AI algorithms are opinions embedded in code; therefore, when a commercial company builds an algorithm according to their definition of success, it is probably a commercial interest, i.e., profit
Which of the following are Jeff Seibert, co-founder of Digits and Angel Investors, and Tristan Harris, founder of Center for Humane Technology, warning us about?
All the items listed in the other three choices are being recorded
Which of the following media are not selling our attention to advertisers and attempting to manipulate our behavior?
All the listed media are selling our attention to advertisers as well as attempting to modify our behavior in their desired interest
Which of the following is NOT a main goal of tech companies?
Altruism
In terms of the documentary, a "psychometric doppelganger" is
An individual with almost the same psychological characteristics as another person's
"Pull down and refresh" is a persuasive technique to provide positive intermittent reinforcement and release dopamine in your brain, thereby directing your habit formation.
False
In the documentary, the case is made that human willpower and awareness can self-regulate some of the most sophisticated AI on the planet.
False
Photo tagging is a form of negative intermittent reinforcement
False
Russian cyberattacks on our election system is based on the corrupting of the code that drives social media.
False
The goals of tech companies are supported by algorithms whose job is to figure out how to make you reach out to your friends and family to use the same apps you are using
False
The tech industry is not currently under any sort of investigation, either by government agencies or individual concerns.
False
The goal of "Persuasive Technology" is to make us into
Geniuses at making others change their behavior in the direction you want them to go
"The tech companies have created a world where entire generations live for connections with others. Yet, these connections are manipulated by a third party - the tech company - with deceit and sneakiness. In this sense, this is indistinguishable from magic." The documentary suggests that this statement is based on the idea that:
Magic exploits our psychological weaknesses, and so does behavior altering technology interfaces
In terms of the documentary, a "psychometric doppelganger" is
NOT "An avatar of a person created to function in a fictitious envireonment"
Activating an ellipsis during texting is a form of positive intermittent reinforcement
NOT "Increase social media notifications of friends in the GPS vicinity"
Which of the following is a correct assessment made by Tristan Harris - the ethicist who quit Google to form the Center for Humane Technology - to describe the underlying reason with what is wrong with the tech industry right now?
NOT "They have created tech addiction"
"Growth hacking" refers to
NOT "Unabated use of A/B testing to achieve sign-ups with the platform"
"Surveillance Capitalism" - a term and title of a book by Professor Shoshasna Zuboff of Harvard Business School basically entails
NOT "a formal futures market based on total certainty of what individuals will do in the future"
According to the documentary, the "disinformation for profit business model"
NOT "does not imply that companies make more money from falsehoods" or "grew out of a reaction to biases towards falsehoods"
According to the documentary, the "disinformation for profit business model"
NOT "grew out of a reaction to biases towards false information"
"My dog ate my homework." This is most likely
NOT "plausible"
Which statement is NOT a correct characterization of the data collected by digital social platforms?
NOT "the data collected is used to build better and better models of ourselves and our identities"
"Snapchat dysmorphia" refers to
NOT "the enhanced filtering of images taken by the user
Tristan Harris observes that
NOT "we will reach the point where AI surpasses our intelligence, and may exploit our human weaknesses through addiction, polarization, radicalization, etc."
"Dialing up monetization" is most likely described as
NOT increase usage in South Korea through local advertisement
"I wrapped up my homework with bacon and my dog ate my homework." This is most likely
NOT plausible Research uncertainty qualifiers
"I live in a house with fifty puppies; My dog ate my homework. This is most likely
Plausible
Which statement made in the documentary is most representative of the beliefs of the producers?
Technology's ability to bring out the worst in our society is the existential threat, not technology itself
What does the role of "Director of Monetization" mean?
The director's job in a tech company charged with converting social media into cash revenue
"Surveillance capitalism" is a term coined to refer to
The profit motive of the social media platforms as influencers of behavior
"Companies like Google and Facebook are some of the wealthiest and most successful of all time. Uh, they have relatively few employees. They just have this giant computer that rakes in money, right? Uh... Now, what are they being paid for? [chuckles] That's a really important question" Which is the most accurate answer to Jaron Lanier's question?
These companies are competing for your attention and directing slight changes in your behavior through opportune and subtle advertising and suggestions
"It basically just said, you know, never before in history have 50 designers—20- to 35-year-old white guys in California—made decisions that would have an impact on two billion people. Two billion people will have thoughts that they didn't intend to have because a designer at Google said, "This is how notifications work on that screen that you wake up to in the morning."" This is a statement made during the documentary by
Tristan Harris, founder of Center for Humane Technology, previously Google ethicist
"If we don't agree on what is true or that there is such thing as truth, we're toast" is an affirmation made by the creator of the documentary, Tristan Harris.
True
"If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product". This roughly means that advertisers are the customers, and "we" are the thing being sold.
True
"Pull down and refresh" is a persuasive technique to provide positive intermittent reinforcement and release dopamine in your brain, thereby directing your habit formation.
True
"The tech companies have created a world where entire generations live for connections with others. Yet, these connections are manipulated by a third party - the tech company - with deceit and sneakiness. In this sense, this is indistinguishable from magic." The documentary suggest that this statement is:
True
According to he documentary, lack of competition, lack of regulation and an unbridled economic model the objective of which is profit maximization, are at the root of the "problem" posed by the tech companies
True
Activating an ellipsis during texting is a form of positive intermittent reinforcement
True
Climate change can be made to appear to be a function of where the Google GPS system associated with your cellular phone locates you to be
True
The documentary highlights how social media distorts our view of ourselves, our relationships, and our broader reality
True
The view is expressed in the documentary that: "We live in a world in which a tree is worth more, financially, dead than alive, in a world in which a whale is worth more dead than alive. For so long as our economy works in that way and corporations go unregulated, they're going to continue to destroy trees, to kill whales, to mine the earth, and to continue to pull oil out of the ground, even though we know it is destroying the planet and we know that it's going to leave a worse world for future generations."
True
We have moved away from a tools based technology orientation, where we produced say, bicycles, to an addiction and manipulation-based technology, where the goal is to get you to do what the social media platforms want you to do.
True
The view is expressed in the documentary that
a dead tree, a dead whale is worth more dead than alive; similarly, we as individuals are more profitable to a corporation if we spend more time staring at a screen as opposed to savoring our productivity and living our lives in a rich way
Technological change has been the landmark of human civilizations for millennia; it is very probable that - according to the documentary,
advances in digital technology are different this time as our brains have not evolved at all in the last 45 years, but technological speed has increased exponentially in that time, making it difficult - if not impossible - for our brains to adapt
Which of the following countries have not suffered from a foreign fake news attack instilling social unrest?
all of the mentioned countries have suffered social unrest under fake news attacks
Dr. Anna Lembke suggests that social media is a drug. This is because
all of the statements represent the views of Dr. Lembke
"A person caught up in intense topic-research phase that includes going deeper and deeper in studying a particular subject plus, at some point, making a detour to other places that are completely unrelated to your first search but sound and look interesting or attractive"
all the choices listed are appropriate to the concept of a rabbit hole
"Gen Z" - those born after 1996 or so - is the first generation in history to be exposed to social media in middle school. This generation has been described in the documentary as
all the other statements are suggested in the documentary as factual
In the case of technology, one way of treating addiction is will-power; the other is reasonably
becoming aware of our actions from an observer's point of view
The document reports of FaceBook has been used as a persuasive tool
for the entire country of Myanmar
In the documentary, the producer Tristan Harris does not propose that
humankind should be treated as an extractable resource: tech services should be designed using persuasive technology
One of the theses proposed in the documentary is the fragmentation of reality. This is best described (metaphorically) as
imagining that Wikepedia decided to give each person a different customized definition of any term or concept and at the same time being paid for it through attention induced behavior towards some commercial end
The goal of positive intermittent reinforcement is to
implant an unconscious habit in your brain which otherwise you would not have developed
According to documentary producer Tristan Harris - referencing an MIT study - "fake news" on Twitter spread _______ times faster than actual, true news.
six
A major conclusion of the documentary producers is that tech companies are not set out to do "evil" but that
the business model is the problem
According to the documentary, "massive-scale contagion experiments" are
the use of subliminal cues to alter the user's behavior without the person's awareness
As presented in the documentary, manipulating an election by a foreign country involves
using the tools FaceBook and other social media provide to create fake news and rabbit holes that susceptible people follow because of lack of critical thinking
In the documentary, a commentator - Professor Rashida Richardson - observes that
when we operate with a different set of "facts" we are no longer able to reckon with nor consume information that contradicts the world view we have created
