Corus launches social platform for music and film discovery based on human recommendations, not algorithms
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Corus is a new social platform for music and film discovery that prioritizes human recommendations over algorithmic curation. Founded by Cymbal co-founder Gabe Jacobs, the platform lets users discover new artists and movies through people whose taste they trust, rather than relying on Spotify, TikTok, or YouTube algorithms. The article presents Corus as a bet that human taste still outperforms machine learning in helping people find new music and films.
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The idea is that, instead of relying on algorithms to find your next favourite artist or movie, you discover them through people whose taste you trust.
Music discovery today is largely a battle of algorithms.
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