Are you feeding your algorithm or is it feeding you?
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Are you feeding your algorithm or is it feeding you?
Algorithmic recommendations are the latest iteration of the Mechanical Turk: a series of human decisions that have been dressed up and automated as technological ones, at an inhuman scale and speed.
Designed and maintained by the engineers of monopolistic tech companies, and running on data that we users continuously provide by logging in each day,
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If taste indeed must be deeply felt, requires time to engage with, and benefits from the surprise that comes from the unfamiliar, then it seems that technology could not possibly replicate it, because algorithmic feeds run counter to these fundamental qualities. When recommendation algorithms are based only on data about what you and other platform
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