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Are Algorithms Making You Boring?
Episode 105

Are Algorithms Making You Boring?

Offline with Jon Favreau · Crooked Media

January 28, 202452m 49s

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Show Notes

Kyle Chayka, New Yorker staff writer and author of “Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture,” joins Offline to expose how online feeds push us into the mainstream and away from each other. He and Jon examine how machine-guided curation changes not only what we consume, but the quality of what gets made in the first place. But first! Max and Jon talk about how introverts have taken over the economy, the moment solo scrolling surpassed socializing, and how algorithm-driven streamers are recreating a worse version of cable.

 

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