Meaning that the one show you watched and didn't like, will come back to haunt you for life in the AI selections.
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Netflix's New AI Search Feature Will Understand Your Viewing Moods
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Understand that Netflix - and any streaming service - will recommend what’s good for it, not you. It’s their priorities that matter, not yours. This new AI angle would only serve to find new ways to push what’s good for Netflix onto you. Most people will eventually cave. So you and I might be the resistant outliers. But most people will cave.
The problem is niche offerings that have low interest might wind up costing more than a bundle since all the subscribers who don't want it still subsidize it; so in the end many of those would go away since they are unprofitable. Having them subsidized means you can get subscribers who want them at a price they are willing to pay.
Never let AI know your habits - it’ll be used for pre-crime and political leanings - and then they’ll come for you.
I remember back in the old days when Tower Records was a thing, and you could go in there and look through DVD discs of different movies, and if you were looking for something specific or a mood, you could get excellent recommendations from the people who worked there. As much as I love technology, and I do, I seriously doubt this is gonna be useful.
All right, I’m gonna go out on a limb here and predict something that’s possibly going to happen. As AI and computers get smarter and better, I would be willing to bet that we will be able to write our own script and watch it on TV, similar to how we can describe a photo to AI, and it will create the photo for us. I think that’s probably gonna be a huge thing. Imagine, having it create a television show or movie in the style of something that you really enjoy and you get to create it yourself and watch it play out. That would be pretty cool.
It’s going to be useless increase of the subscription prices.
How else will they charge more money telling customers they have developed AI for Netflix, so now you must pay $30/month?
The way I usually figure out what movies I want to watch is finding a list of movies that came out last year, looking through the descriptions, then putting the ones that sound interesting into Sonarr to get auto-torrented.
Sometimes I'll see something that's coming out in the future and I'll put that into Sonarr to get auto-torrented when it's released or leaked.
No AI nonsense needed.
Sometimes I'll see something that's coming out in the future and I'll put that into Sonarr to get auto-torrented when it's released or leaked.
No AI nonsense needed.
I'm so happy I cancelled Netflix in early 2022. I moved back to acquiring my own media and Jellyfin/Plex/Emby. That way I've discovered gems of shows from the 2001-2015 era that I'd never have had though Plex Discover, Trakt and IMDB.
Just skip over that. Give them a couple years, and Netflix will just generate a whole movie for you. Since most of theirs already look algorithmically generated anyway, we should be pretty close to it.
My friends partner watches a lot of Asian dramas so when he tries to watch something it’s all Chinese drama suggestions !
