“The top one percent of films, about 380 titles, pull nearly forty percent of all attention; half of everything anyone watched sits in the top two percent.”
Two random London high streets already share almost half their food. Song vocabulary is down more than a quarter since the early 1960s and repeated lines are up by a third. Recommenders were sold as personalization, and a system trained to minimize prediction error just walks everyone toward the mean. Leek wants a mandated exploration floor, roughly a fifth of the system’s attention, because no platform gives up accuracy voluntarily.