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Mine is Universal Paperclips, except it makes engagement statistics instead of paperclips.


The scenario describes an advanced artificial intelligence tasked with manufacturing paperclips. If such a machine were not programmed to value human life, then given enough power over its environment, it would try to turn all matter in the universe, including human beings, into either paperclips or machines which manufacture paperclips.[0]

Replace "paperclips" with "clickbait" and "human life" with "the right to privacy". "Artificial intelligence" then becomes Mark Zuckerborg.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...




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