It's really amazing how bad those personnalisation engines are; AI seems pretty stupid for now.
But as I was making the exact same point a few days ago here on HN, someone responded to say that maybe it was on purpose, that if recommendations were too good they would creep us out.
Don't know what to think of it but I found the objection interesting...
another point is that you (the recommender, and, incidentally, also the user) are happy if there is at least one novel and interesting item in the recommendations.
This might apply less to music (list) recommendations, but in general that's how I (as a customer) also approach lists of recommendations.
But as I was making the exact same point a few days ago here on HN, someone responded to say that maybe it was on purpose, that if recommendations were too good they would creep us out.
Don't know what to think of it but I found the objection interesting...