How do recommendation algorithms affect our sense of taste?

25/12/2025 54 min
How do recommendation algorithms affect our sense of taste?

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There are few things more peculiar to a person than their preferences; why they favour one genre of music or one style of writing over another. And in our world of endless digital reproduction, we increasingly rely on recommendation algorithms to curate or triage our encounters with culture. But algorithms tend toward massification; they rule out the possibilities of both aesthetic achievement and sheer surprise.

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