4 ms·
> The platform should not be favoring the unaccomplished and the accomplished with equal weight [...] tastes conform to the constraints of the world around them
by slfnflctd 5y ago
> The platform should not be favoring the unaccomplished and the accomplished with equal weight [...] tastes conform to the constraints of the world around them
A lot of great thoughts here; I see this as the gist of it. Modern media platforms have continually struggled to rank art in terms of quality. It may appear to be an impossible task because to some extent it's subjective, but we seemed to have done better in the past with human curators.
Since general AI is almost certainly a long way off, the most we can expect from algorithms is to help us narrow down various categories. Someone still needs to be at the wheel to further refine or rank the results. The alternative is indeed much like swimming through a sea of excrement in search of a few rare pearls.
- tomc1985 5y agoThere is already a system for this: DJs, radio, and mixes. But the DJs need to control the radio or the mix, and they need to do so solely for artistic or aesthetic reasons, not commercial, political, or economic ones. If the music can be easily identified (either by IDing the track directly or via something like Shazam), and the listener has found a DJ they like, finding that 1% becomes really easy. Curated playlists is moving in the right direction, but you're still missing out on the extra context and flourish that a good selector can add. The signal-to-noise ratio for this approach is extremely high; the right party or twitch stream can be worth 10x the amount of time spent trawling through Spotify's daily playlists.