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[Home viewing of movies] has created a situation in which everything is presented to the viewer on a level playing field, which sounds democratic but isn't. If further viewing is "suggested" by algorithms based on what you've already seen, and the suggestions are based only on subject matter or genre, then what does that do to the art of cinema? ...Algorithms, by definition, are based on calculations that treat the viewer as a consumer and nothing else.
-- Martin Scorsese. "Il Maestro: Federico Fellini and the lost magic of cinema." Harper's (March 2021 issue).
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