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The technology behind current human-generated infinite feeds is already a mature application of state of the art machine learning. When you interact with Twitter or LinkedIn, you’re interacting with a model, except instead of generating text it’s generating lists of other people’s posts. In other words, feeds already maintain a sophisticated embedding of your personal likes and dislikes. The step from “use that embedding to surface relevant content” to “use that embedding to generate relevant content” might be very short indeed.