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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.

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.

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.

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.