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I have always felt this is where recommendation engines go wrong. If I watch a cat video, it'll think all I like are cats. I may like content about Foo — some
by 2143 3y ago
I have always felt this is where recommendation engines go wrong.
If I watch a cat video, it'll think all I like are cats.
I may like content about Foo — something entirely unrelated to cats — if I watch it. But since I have never watched anything about Foo before (perhaps because I didn't know about its existence), it won't recommend me Foo. Therefore I wouldn't know it exists. Hence I never see it, even though if I had seen it I may (or may not) have liked it.
Meanwhile, after a point I get tired of all the cat videos, and stop using the service.
I want recommendation engines to occasionally recommend totally fresh content unrelated to anything I ever watched.
- numpad0 3y agoI wonder if this is actually a small problem, or, reflection of the reality at this moment, that past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. "___ is recommending ___ even after I'm done with it" seems too common of a complaint for recommendation engines to be a small simple oversight.