Collaborative filtering Memes

The joke brilliantly skewers how recommendation algorithms work in real life. Instead of having original preferences, ML models basically look at what's popular and say "I'll have what they're having!" It's the digital equivalent of copying the smart kid's homework, but with billions of data points. Collaborative filtering in a nutshell—why make your own decisions when you can just aggregate everyone else's? Next time Netflix suggests that documentary everyone's watching, remember it's just an algorithm at a bar asking what's trending.