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At the top of the article is a Netflix genre generator. That is worth the price of admission all by itself.

But then there's a fairly entertaining look into what happened to content at Netflix after the million dollar challenge.

It's simple. They payed people to tag films with more useful features for their machine learning algorithms.

  Rogue-Cop Viral Plague Tearjerkers Based on Real Life Set in the Edwardian Era

I'd actually watch that.

"Sherlock Holmes and the Influenza (zombie) Pandemic of 1918."

My favorite so far is "Viral Plague Gay & Lesbian Movies". For a random generator it sure seems to have an agenda.