Part of me wonders though if TikTok is helpful in understanding recommendation algorithms and curation, because it’s so blatant. I notice that, especially with younger users, there’s a total understanding that what they’re seeing is not occurring naturally, but is the result of computational choices being made for them.

A recommender system is a digital product that uses AI to generate personalized recommendations. Over the past 20 years, recommender systems have come to play a central role on many large online platforms. Some recommender systems run prominently in the foreground of the user experience (UX), and operate as core features or even brands (such as Spo... See more