The Social Dilemma Phim
Channing Rupnick
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Hai hm nay, mnh xem đi xem lại nhiều lần một bộ phim đang hot trn Netflix: The Social Dilemma. Ni tm lược, phim l chuỗi cc cuộc phỏng vấn về cch m cc đại gia cng nghệ (tech giants) đang thao tng cuộc sống của chng ta như thế no, chi phối cảm xc của chng ta ra sao, lm bất ổn nền chnh trị ton cầu bằng cch no. Đi từ vi m đến vĩ m, bộ phim vẽ ra một bức tranh hiện tại (chứ khng phải tương lai) về cch m mạng x hội đang dần kiểm sot hnh vi của mỗi con người.
1. Phim thật sự hấp dẫn khi m tả lại cuộc chiến giữa con người v cng nghệ. Ở một pha của mn hnh l bộ no chng ta, pha cn lại l hng chục siu my tnh với khả năng xử l khổng lồ, nền tảng AI mạnh mẽ v c thể c nhn ho một cch xuất sắc.
3. Tại thời điểm khi tm hiểu nội dung để viết thesis, mnh cho rằng, cc scenarios như predictable agent v digital eye kh c khả năng diễn ra. Nhưng thật sự, chng ta đang khng biết l n c thể đang diễn ra. Ni chung l, cc bạn đợi khi no mnh hứng mnh quăng ci thesis về AI v collusion ln cho cc bạn đọc chơi.
4. Phim khng chỉ ra một giải php hữu hiệu ở gc độ người dng để chống lại sự thao tng từ mạng x hội, trừ: turn of your notifications, dont let your kids use phone hay delete social network accounts v dont ever click on recommendations.
5. Phim đặt ra vi vấn đề th vị: về việc chng ta cần phải regulate cc tech giants ny như thế no. Ni chung cc bạn cứ tm hiểu Code is Law hoặc mấy ci của Lessig nha. Trch trong phim: "There are only two industries that call their customer: illegal drugs and softwares."
6. Phim chưa xem xt đầy đủ hiệu quả của php luật về bảo vệ quyền ring tư trn cyberspace, trong đ đặt biệt phải nhấn mạnh đến vai tr của General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), hay cc vấn đề về antitrust law.
- Ci ny lại lm mnh nhớ đến cu kinh điển của Ezrachi với Stucke: In the Digital Eye scenario, the developers could not predict for when, how, and how long the algorithms would tacitly collude. They even do not have any intention to do so as it merely relies on AI.
The Social Dilemma is a 2020 American docudrama film directed by Jeff Orlowski and written by Orlowski, Davis Coombe, and Vickie Curtis. The documentary covers the negative social effects of social media and is interspersed by a dramatized narrative surrounding a family of five who are increasingly affected by problematic social media use.
The Social Dilemma premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, on January 26, 2020, and was released on Netflix on September 9, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. It received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised its message and use of interviews with established tech experts but criticized the narrative and lack of nuance in addressing technological problems.
The Social Dilemma covers the psychological underpinnings and manipulation techniques by which, it claims, social media and technology companies addict users. People's online activity is watched, tracked, and measured by these companies, who then use this data to build artificial intelligence models that predict the actions of their users. Tristan Harris, former Google design ethicist and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, explains in the documentary that there are three main goals of tech companies:
The film also discusses the dangers of fake news. Harris argues that this is a "disinformation-for-profit business model" and that companies make more money by allowing "unregulated messages to reach anyone for the best price".
In the end credits, the interviewees propose ways the audience can take action to fight back, such as turning off notifications, never accepting recommended videos on YouTube, using search engines that do not retain search history, and establishing rules in the house on cell phone usage.
The documentary uses a fictional dramatized narrative to illustrate the issues discussed, centering around "a middle-class, average American family"[2] whose members each interface with the internet differently: Ben, a teenage high school student who falls deeper into social media addiction and online radicalization; Isla, an adolescent who develops depression and low self-esteem from social media's unrealistic beauty standards;[3] Cassandra, an older teenager who does not have a mobile phone and is depicted as being free from online manipulation; and their mother and stepfather, who try to curb their children's screen time but do not fully understand the factors of the situation. The narrative depicts Ben and Isla as increasingly affected by social media and internet addictions, driven by the Engagement, Growth, and Advertisement AIs, represented by anthropomorphized tech executives in a "behind-the-screen" control room, who find ways to keep their users as addicted to social media as possible, while only viewing them as depersonalized avatars, with little concern for theirs or society's well-being.[2]
The narrative starts with Isla ignoring her mother's requests to set the table, followed by her increasingly becoming depressed after her appearance is criticized on social media. After Cassandra criticizes Isla and Ben's problematic smartphone use, their mother proposes locking everyone's phones in a safe so they can have dinner together, but when one phone receives a notification, Isla tries to open the safe and ultimately breaks it open with a tool, damaging Ben's phone screen. In return for a new phone screen, Ben promises his mother he will not use his phone for a week, but the AIs, confused as to why he is suddenly inactive, decide to draw him back in by sending him a notification that his ex has started a new relationship, prompting Ben to break his promise and doomscroll in an attempt to cope. The AIs, deducing he is a centrist, begin recommending him radical centrist views to keep him engaged, which quickly devolve into propaganda and conspiracy theories by the anti-democratic "Extreme Center" movement, radicalizing Ben and affecting his daily life to the point of near-isolation. Ultimately, Ben attends an Extreme Center rally that devolves into violence when similarly-radicalized counter-protestors arrive. Cassandra learns Ben is there and searches for him, but both are detained by riot police. At the end of the narrative, the AIs merge into one entity while Ben's avatar becomes a human representation of himself, and they stare at each other.[2]
The Social Dilemma centers on the social and cultural impact of social media usage on regular users, with a focus on algorithmically enabled forms of behavior modification and psychological manipulation. The film depicts an array of related themes, including technological addiction, fake news, depression, and anxiety.[43]
One interviewee, Tim Kendall, a former director of Facebook, spoke up on the alarming goal of the company: updating the app with increased addictiveness for a consistent boost in engagement.[8] Another interviewee, Tristan Harris, former Google designer, compares the addiction level to a "Vegas slot machine" as users "check their phones hoping that they have a notification, as it's like they are pulling the lever of a slot machine hoping they hit the jackpot".[44]
Misinformation and fake news are commonly spread on social media, and users are unable to distinguish between fake and real news, resulting in differences in ideology and societal division. The immersion of users in this app, who are thus exposed to limitless information, according to Kendall, could potentially lead to tension within society.[8]
Jeff Orlowski, who is mostly known for his work in Chasing Coral and Chasing Ice, began production on The Social Dilemma in 2018 and concluded it in 2019. When asked where his inspiration came from during the film's panel at Deadline Hollywood's Contenders Documentary event, Orlowski said that he has "always been curious about big systemic and societal challenges".[45] He came to believe that "invisibly, a handful of designers in Silicon Valley are writing code that is shaping the lives of billions of people around the planet".[45]
We were drawn to tell the stories of our changing glaciers and changing coral reefs because they were powerful signs of a huge global issue facing humanity: climate change. When we started talking with Tristan Harris and the Center for Humane Technology, we saw a direct parallel between the threat posed by the fossil fuel industry and the threat posed by our technology platforms. Harris calls this "the climate change of culture", an invisible force that is shaping how the world gets its information and understands truth. Our hope has always been to work on big issues, and we now see the "social dilemma" as a problem beneath all our other problems.
The film's music is composed by Mark Crawford, "a Primetime Emmy-nominated composer and filmmaker" who was nominated for an ASCAP Award for his work on The Social Dilemma.[48] With the use of "human-produced" and mechanical sounds, as Crawford explained in The Social Dilemma interview, he displayed the alarming impacts of social media through this soundtrack.[49]
The Social Dilemma premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2020, and was released worldwide on Netflix on September 9, 2020.[50] The documentary went on to be viewed in 38,000,000 homes within the first 28 days of release.[51] It won two awards out of seven nominations at the 73rd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in 2021.[52]
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