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Interesting argument. The one thing I’d add is that maintains exploration/exploitation diversity needs to be a mandate for production and consumption, else we still drift to monoculture. Cf European content mandates forcing streamers to show minimum % regional content.

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The content itself may be just as prediction-optimised, but at least the origin is diversified. The principle can be extended to an „indie/art house/…“ ratio like other broadcasting license mandates have it

And as platforms vertically integrate to become content houses to increase share of revenue, this becomes even more logical. I.e. when Spotify in-houses AI music generators like Facebook wants to in-house AI people.

In fact, yes, Spotify has just announced an AI badge, but I‘s be SHOCKED if tastegraph-based personal generators isn’t deep in development in whatever their AI/innovation unit is.

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Mandating a particular design/serendipity algo would be overstep IMO, but I can see EU „safety-test“ standards for assessing diversity/distance measures of the content history of anonymised representative user sample of very large platforms.