What Does This Mean?
The process by which recommendation systems build an increasingly precise model of what a specific user wants before the user has consciously articulated it themselves, sometimes surfacing desires the person hadn't yet recognized in themselves.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"It recommended something I didn't know I wanted until I saw it, which is a deeply strange feeling to sit with."
LORE & ORIGIN
Named around 2023 in critical AI-culture writing examining how predictive systems trained on enormous behavioral datasets can anticipate preferences with a precision that occasionally feels more self-aware than the user's own self-knowledge.
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