Fruit fly meme skewers recsys: humans now share attention spans with flies
djcows · x · 2026-09-13
A viral AI joke: fruit flies have roughly the same attention span as modern humans, so every social media company has added "fruit fly simulators" to their recommendation stack — "you are now a fruit fly." A pointed riff on how short-video algorithms optimize for degraded human attention.
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