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Inside the Algorithm Factory: Music Recommendations (w/ Nick Seaver)

Money 4 Nothing

CHAPTER

The Paradox of Technology and Culture

Music carries all of these ideas about human expressiveness and yet it's full of technology. We don't have music without technology, but recommender systems exist in the world. Recommender systems are not just better or worse at representing music from the outside; they affect music sort of from the inside as it were. What it means to listen to music today is different than what it meant to listen to Music in a world before recommender systems existed.

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