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What do these people think the word "algorithm" means? Something something dihydrogen monoxide.
Engagement-based content recommendation algorithm. As I am sure you well know.
This is like asking people what they're complaining about when they're complaining about AI. Like yes, the term is very broad and technically encompasses non-neural-network decision making logic, but you know damn well what I'm talking about.
Algorithm means Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. His name was transliterated into Latin as Algoritmi and from there into English as Algorithm.
Using 'algorithm' to refer to anything other than the person is linguistic drift and therefore utterly unacceptable. Even if you're "pulling an Algorithm" by relying on his mathematical work, then you're pulling an Algorithm every time you use the number zero. Using "(pulling an) Algorithm" to refer only to a structured set of mathematically precise instructions is just so ignorant.
Anyway, what were you saying about people being dumb for using "algorithm" in a different sense than how it was used previously?
Haha yes all words change meaning. You're so smart for figuring that out.
There's a difference between the two changes though. Most notably the first one doesn't conflict with the name, whereas this new usage which only makes sense within the context of corporate-made social media from the last 15 years.
"Algorithm" is a term from computer science that doesn't inherently have anything to do with social media or content recommendations. Those things are examples of algorithms, but far from the only ones.
That is an example application of Algorithm's work, but far from the only one. Algorithm doesn't inherently have to do with information theory or programming languages.
Linguistic drift comes for us all. "Eventually everyone who hates this thing is going to be dead, and the ones that use it are going to be in control".