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1. Mark Stosberg (markstos@urbanists.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 08:13:06 JST Mark Stosberg

   Chaos Theory has this term "basins of attraction", destinations where seemingly random inputs keep ending up, like a movie with many beginnings but only one ending.

   Today I finally listened to enough music from different genres that my Spotify recommendations are finally landing in a different basin of attraction instead of continuing to spiral me back down the drain of the same pop music.

   Once you start listening to music in a #spotify basin of attraction it's hard to climb out of the well!

   • Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Mark Stosberg (markstos@urbanists.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 08:13:05 JST Mark Stosberg

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     People are chattering are how bad it's going to be as #ChatGPT starts ingesting it's own AI-generated output as "truth".

     But we are already living in AI feedback loops, like when we listen to #Spotify's recommended tracks, and it uses that new listening behavior to make the next recommendation.

     It doesn't get better and better over time, it gets narrower and narrower. And to the extent it mixes in "what's popular", some flukes are getting highly recommended while some good music is missed.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Mark Stosberg (markstos@urbanists.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 08:22:06 JST Mark Stosberg

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     To get Spotify recommendations that truly delight me, I have to explore, poke, and pivot to climb out of the recommendation silos the algorithms put me in.

     #Spotify is only succeeding is noticing what I listen to. It fails to notice HOW I listen to music. I like to do a deep dive in a genre, soak it up and move on to something else.

     #Spotify keeps assuming each neighbordhood I visit is where I want to buy a house.

     Whatcha got for musical nomads Spotify?!