A short interview between Rob Moore and Katie Hopkins discussing whether algorithms or human behaviour drive online amplification. The guest argues algorithms now steer content rather than merely react, predicts widespread professional disruption (legal profession cited), and says AI lacks a sense of humour—so she deliberately uses comedic/absurd tactics in her standup to "outplay" algorithms and maintain visibility. The exchange mixes critique of tech culture with personal anecdotes about deplatforming.
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So someone said to me, who styles himself as an expert in social media and algorithms, he says it's not the fault of the algorithms or social media. It's human behavior. What do you think about that? I mean, that you nearly barked because, you know, maybe we need to take responsibility. When my haters go and hate in on my content that they don't like, I know very well I've created content that they would like, you know, the joke's on them that they're feeding the algorithm. But if people just didn't respond to what they didn't want to perpetuate and did respond to what they did want to perpetuate, surely the algorithms would change.
The algorithm now, I think, has much less to do with a reaction to humans. It's more of a steering committee now. It's deciding the trajectory of what it's going to feed you. And. And we're only modifying it slightly. I disagree with your expert. Well, I. I'm never a fan of anyone that calls themselves an expert, nor anyone who has to wear a fancy dress to work, for example, a doctor or a lawyer, in order to sort of enunciate to the world that they're clearly an expert. Because, look, I've worn fancy dress to work. But I think if he particularly be frightened children, if someone says, you know, I'm from security and they've got a half a pip on a Velcro thing here, you know, eyes on those people. But you're.
Especially if they work for the BBC.
Oh. Or if they've got a lanyard. Oh. Always be wary of lanyard. That's the ultimate uniform. That is. Lanyard. Linda with her lanyard on one of those, you know, the in n out ones. Regardless, your expert friend, I think is incorrect. I think the AI is already functioning at a higher level than humans are. Humans aren't to blame now. I mean, A.I. if any of us had any understanding of where A.I. was already at, we'd be more terrified than we are just reading the article about how lawyers are already extinct. They're defunct. They don't exist anymore. They haven't caught up yet, but they don't exist. Wow. They're gone. The legal profession is gone.
I know. That won't be the only profession.
Oh, no. But it's a very good example of someone now paid over £200,000 a year with quite a lot of puff in their chest, who doesn't exist and may start to be realizing it, but doesn't yet know it. It's gone.
Thankfully for you. AI doesn't do comedy or satire very well at all.
Yeah, and I don't.
I don't think that's not gonna wipe you out.
It's not that order of things, actually. Okay. It's the other way round. Right. So working out all the reasons I've been cancelled, banned, fired, removed from countries, removed from my life, I had my house taken, came for my kids, or a couple of jihadis came from my head. When you work out the algorithm and you study it and you look at her offering herself to you and you work her out. Well, I worked out quite a while back that something that's generated by a bunch of H1B visa soy sat in California jerking off their tiny chipolata sausages into some old picture of Steve Jobs, the one thing those soy would never fucking have is a sense of humor. And the algorithm, of course, with linguistic variation, with tonal variation, algorithms can't perceive that because they're not smart enough yet. So if then you're smart, you work out the way you can still deliver what you've been doing all along is to outplay the algorithm. Which is where my standup decision came from. I treat AI and the algorithm like a German or a Canadian. Right? No sense of humor, very linear and rule taking. And if you play the fool, it doesn't know what to do with you. Which is why I'm probably better known now than at any point that I have been.
