snarkyspice 's review for:

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

4.0

challenging informative slow-paced

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Key quotes from this book:

Consumption without taste is just undiluted, accelerated capitalism.

In the matter of personal taste, knowing what you like is difficult. But it's equally hard to know when you don't like or don't want something when it's being so strenuously presented as "For You." In Filterworld, it becomes increasingly difficult to trust yourself or know who you are in the perceptions of algorithmic recommendations.

Marketing has taken the place of creation in the same way that conforming to the algorithmic feed has taken the place of creative self-expression. Neither is particularly concerned with originality.