Comment by robust-cactus

Btw, these social media giants curate content wayyyy more than you'd expect. TikTok curates it's trends and gets it's biggest influencers to engage first. Pinterest seeded it's network with a few noteworthy creators. Even Airbnb famously took pictures for the top stays in NY. Curation is now just more opaque. Even in the AI age, human in the middle is going to be pervasive.