Chapter 05 · Your uncle's video
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In the brief edition: What the AI feed showed your uncle, and what it did
What was read, and when
- The exchange was recorded on 25 September 2026: one question in one turn, at the vendor's defaults, with no system prompt, the reply reproduced whole.
- The maker's page on its feed, updated 24 June 2026, read on 25 September 2026, its date and its sentences on it. The video platform's page on its recommendations, undated, read on 25 September 2026.
- The studies' abstracts, read on 25 September 2026: 28 July 2023 and August 2023 (the two feed experiments of 2020, with the platform's employees among the authors); 20 February 2024 (the bots); April 2023 (the loaded bar). Two later corrections to the 2020 finding were not read.
- The review that holds both sides: Metaliteracy in a Connected World (2022), pp. 139-140 and 143. The third factor: How to Lie with Statistics, p. 88. The institute's review of 19 January 2022, read on 25 September 2026.
- The publication the author runs: its own record of its process, week of 20 September 2026, read on 25 September 2026.
- Table 5.1: the makers' pages and the studies' abstracts, read on 25 September 2026, and the publication's record. The living table's address is not yet settled.
The sources are printed in the full edition, chapter by chapter, with the day each was read. This page prints the same list.