The training loop converts desire-curation into automated behavioral control for profit

Evidence

This infinite loop, or regress, allows Alexa, and the great algorithmic network hiding in the cloud behind it, to guide our behaviour in ways superbly lucrative for its owner: having automated Alexa’s power to manufacture, or at least curate, our desires, it grants its owners a magic wand with which to modify our behaviour – a power that every marketer has dreamed of since time immemorial. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 273

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Digital assistants convert inner life into calculable behavioral surplus for others’ profit — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 796; Economies of action get institutionalized into automated algorithms that modify behavior — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 939; Surveillance capitalist experiments exploit knowledge asymmetry to engineer user behavior for profit — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 934 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Digital assistants convert inner life into calculable behavioral surplus for others’ profit #expands (0.90) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 796
• Economies of action get institutionalized into automated algorithms that modify behavior #corroborates (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 939
• Surveillance capitalist experiments exploit knowledge asymmetry to engineer user behavior for profit #corroborates (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 934
• Behavioral modification requires asymmetries of knowledge and power #qualifies (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 874