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We’ll pay to get revenge on an algorithm, even though it can’t feel a thing

An algorithm can’t feel the sting of losing money, but people will sacrifice their own cash to punish one anyway. In experiments with more than 6,000 participants, people retaliated against unfair machines just as often as against unfair humans.

We’ll pay to get revenge on an algorithm, even though it can’t feel a thing

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