‘Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?’ How personal taste fell out of fashion
The pervasive influence of algorithms on streaming and social media platforms has led to a significant erosion of personal taste. Platforms like Spotify and Instagram, designed to maximize engagement, curate content based on past user behavior, leading to a synthesized and commodified form of individual preference. This algorithmic curation promotes easily digestible and less meaningful cultural content, leaving users feeling a lack of genuine enthusiasm and a loss of their ability to form independent opinions and preferences. AI
IMPACT Algorithmic curation on major platforms may be diminishing users' capacity for independent preference formation.