The Murder Algorithm by Wilson Kincaid

Author:Wilson Kincaid
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Eric Wilson
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

TWENTY-ONE

Saturday, 8:20 a.m.

The combination of monitor displays and the active retina display of his iRiz created a universe of data and connections for Maddox to navigate through like a data astronaut. He stood in the center of the Gray Room, watching the neon color-coded data swirl around him in waves tailored for his understanding only. StreamBugs positioned themselves strategically around the space to provide instant overlays of charts and graphs onto the real world monitors and desk via his iRiz.

He could work here for hours on end, obsessing over the stream of information. The graphs changed to engagement data, showing how long people had been interacting with the site and how many level-two ads they were exposed to. It was all about connection and participation. Maddox drove the core value of the company up by driving up watcher time, then aggregating, repackaging and redistributing the very data he was looking at now to companies that use it to sell themselves and their products.

Maddox knew the system had deeper ramifications than just selling products and services. It also planted and sold ideas, creating beliefs that could become the foundation for larger corporate and societal change. Expose someone to an ad hundreds of times without them even realizing it, and it becomes a belief they have without even wondering why they have it.

Maintaining divisions in society without going too far was the knife's edge that Maddox sharpened, and today he was cutting together a new narrative. Conflict being the key to engagement, he was spreading a “citizen journalist” StarStream that satisfied both sides of the political dive, a story about how StarSee had helped a small Middle Eastern country stop the beginnings of a civil war. The story was that by seeing each other in their StarStreams, the opposing sides came to understand that they were all human, with the same hopes, dreams and wishes. If it were not for StarSee, and the massive reach and acceptance of the platform, these people would be fighting and killing each other instead of democratically electing peaceful representatives. The mention of Sparkle, which helped clean their water and sanitize their dishes, was barely noticeable.

The story would never be seen outside of a certain region of theUnited States, and unbeknownst to any of those viewers, Maddox’s AI algorithm generated all of it. The website that ran the story was completely created by Maddox’s AI code. The reporter who wrote the story was Maddox’s AI code. The country was real, but there was no seed of discontent, no sprouting animosity, no budding civil war, just the potential for conflict that was spun into existence by Maddox and his code.

It was very illegal, but he didn’t care. No one would have the time, energy, or inclination to investigate any of it. If an outside news agency dug in, it would appear that some citizen journalist had simply gotten a story wrong, and the trail would end.

This was what made StarSee the number one platform in the world, and it was all because Maddox himself paid attention to subscribers, their wants and their needs.

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