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   Mark Stosberg (markstos@urbanists.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 08:48:58 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.

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     Mark Stosberg (markstos@urbanists.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 08:48:59 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!