User Manipulation in Recommender Systems

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• Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley)
• Wednesday 15 March 2023, 11:00-12:30
• Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

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Many recommender systems of today have switched to optimize long-term engagement metrics via approaches such as Reinforcement Learning. It has been shown theoretically that this will lead recommender systems to have incentives to manipulate users’ internal states (beliefs, preferences, or moods), in ways that lead to increases in the systems’ optimization metrics. But are recommendations sufficient to manipulate users? And equally importantly, will these incentives manipulation incentives be acted upon by real systems? In this talk I’ll give an overview of the research that has already been conducted in this area, and the open research questions which I’m currently investigating.

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