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How streaming services decode emotional patterns

My music streaming app knows I listen to sad songs when it rains and started making playlists for my weather-based moods without me asking.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Entertainment platforms develop intimate knowledge of our psychological rhythms, anticipating our feelings with an accuracy that can feel more caring than creepy.

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