Hacking the Recommendation Algorithm: From Invisible Watermarks to Soul Injection
The End of Clickbait, The Rise of Algo-bait For a long time, the first rule of marketing was to “catch the human eye.” Stimulating thumbnails, shocking titles—it was all about human psychology. But now that LLMs (Large Language Models) are at the core of recommendation logic, I started with a fundamental question: “Now, internal Google models (LLMs) decide whether to recommend content before a human ever sees it. Shouldn’t our strategy shift from attracting humans to attracting the LLM to rank us higher?” ...