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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by dmonitor on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:13PM (#35392911)
reminds me of a story about a guy who was given a gift, a decorative plate with a rooster on it i think it was. didn’t care for it too much, but out of politeness put it on display on an empty cabinet he had. a while later someone noticed he had it and figured he liked it, so got him a similar decorative plate with a rooster on it. again, out of politeness, he put it next to the old one. now other people started to think he just really liked roosters, and started giving him little rooster statues and nicknacks. Eventually he just has a whole display cabinet of rooster themed gifts that he never really cared for to begin with, but people just assume he likes them because people keep giving them to him.
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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by Washuu on Friday March 31, 2023 @06:18PM (#35394476)
I have a whole shelf full of horse stuff because of this!~
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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by bluegate010 on Friday March 31, 2023 @07:02PM (#35394948)
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/critical
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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by cscompman on Friday March 31, 2023 @10:30PM (#35396449)
I can hear AI biden reading this outloud.
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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by yeetard on Saturday April 01, 2023 @04:35AM (#35398457)
this is a hilarious example for a serious problem. well done!
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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by bluesign on Saturday April 01, 2023 @06:16AM (#35398997)
and in the end, he starts to like that decorative plates with roosters or at least thinks rooster on plate is a nice decoration if it is produced that much.
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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by whiddershins on Saturday April 01, 2023 @02:54PM (#35402950)
I had a friend who this happened to with ducks. You would go to her house and there were little duck icons and duck figurines and duck themed things everywhere.

When questioned, it turns out she never cared about or liked ducks. Someone gave her one and then it became the go to present for her for every occasion, for decades.

Decades of ducks.

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by cunidev on Saturday April 01, 2023 @03:43PM (#35403419)
I am probably part of this problem - an enabler, so to say. I was hosted a nice lady with a house full of duck themed things (this was in southern England, probably not the same lol), and left her two (rather cute) duck-themed things when I moved assuming that she'd like those.

She was unequivocally happy when I did, but perhaps it was just because of the gesture.

(EDIT: also, the rooster/horse/duck example of feedback loop would make for a terrific blog post)

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