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A cautionary tale: My streaming service shuffled an EDM song into my queue a little while back that I kinda liked so I favorites it and listened several times over the next week. Had a generic anime girl as the album art, but that's not too unusual in that space so whatever.

Brandon Jones

@toji.dev

After that The Algorithm got real excited and was like "You like this artist? I'm gonna play more stuff by them!" And it played a LOT more. And it all sounded suspiciously similar. Turns out this "artist" puts out hundreds of singles a year. Every one with generic anime girl art.

19/9/26, 4:00 pm0 reposts3 likes

Brandon Jones

@toji.dev

19 Sept

So, yeah. Unfortunately I got tricked into giving an obvious AI content farm a few dozen listens, and NOW my recommendations are endless fields of non-distinct EDM songs from a variety of fake artists with AI generated anime girls on the cover. And I don't know how to dig myself out of this hole.

Brandon Jones

@toji.dev

19 Sept

Anime girl album art: not even once.

Klaus Weidner

@klausweidner.bsky.social

19 Sept

On YouTube Music (and regular YouTube), going through your play history and deleting entries seems to help tame the algorithm. I got bombarded with latte art videos after looking at just one of them and deleting it quieted things down again.

Brandon Jones

@toji.dev

19 Sept

I've done this in the past (notably to de-kpop-ify my recommendations after my kids went through a phase) but the interface for deleting watch/listen history is sadly not very friendly to bulk operations. 🫤