the Netflix algorithm ends up defining our taste as only one fixed thing, made more rigid by every successive interaction on the platform, moving deeper into a pigeonhole. Even when the recommendations are accurate, they can become limiting. As Pajkovic wrote, “Feedback loops reinforce a user’s pre-existing preferences, diminishing their exposure to a diverse range of cultural offerings and denying art, aesthetics and culture of its confrontational societal role.” That lack of confrontation is concerning. It’s not that great art needs to be inherently offensive; rather, when everything
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