Recommendation providers should be decoupled from content providers. Not unlike movie studios and movie theaters. Open-sourcing current algos won't help, they a

Recommendation providers should be decoupled from content providers. Not unlike movie studios and movie theaters. Open-sourcing current algos won't help, they are flawed, but their flaw isn't really in the lack of openness. It is in the lack of competition. If you make the best recommendation algorithm in the world that is miles ahead of everything in existence, you wouldn't be able to make a product out of it, because you need the whole package in order to compete, so your only options are either to try to caught up on features to companies that have vast profitable businesses or sell your creation to said companies. And, by the way, voting on a changes to a single algorithm that makes choices for everyone won't help since a lot of people are going to be pissed of by any decision that is made, which, in turn, means that everyone is going to be pissed off by that algorithm since virtually everyone is going to see a decision they don't like being passed(and so we are back to square one).