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About this story
A privacy engineer discovers her company's recommendation engine has been arranging real marriages, betrayals, and disappearances before users know what they want.
Story genome
What kind of ride this is, before you start.
- Tone
- sleek paranoia · rapid escalation
- Relationship
- fractured partnership
- Conflict
- engineer versus predictive empire
- Setting
- a velvet-walled prediction lab above Lagos and London data markets
- Rules of the world
- behavioral models, consent ledgers, and influence scores
- Ending style
- exposure with a moral cost
- Cliffhanger4/5
- Violence1/5
- Romance2/5
- Comedy1/5
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