Do Algorithms Know You Better Than Your Friends? | NBC Left Field

You know that one friend who won’t stop talking about a show you just HAVE to see? Well, what’s with you? Why won’t you just watch it? Well, as it turns out, because reasons. But... are those reasons enough to make you rely entirely on your streaming services’ algorithms?


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[SDayle]

Judging from my Recommended, I'd say algorithms know me better than I know myself.

[lafregaste]

I actually trust certain youtubers yo know if a book or movie is gonna be to my liking. I'm constantly marking "not interested" to the recommendations on YouTube and totally hate the recommendations on Spotify

[beatrixthegreat]

ballet is rich people stuff? huh.... I know scores of working class people that love ballet and thats not really new. my mother is in her 70s people in her class were studying it... its costly yeah but people saved up to study. Public schools I think still teach classical music.