Redditor's AI movie-recommendation trick for Letterboxd gets swarm-downvoted
Common-Individual-71 · reddit · 2026-09-18
A user shared a workflow that exports Letterboxd data, feeds it to an AI model with a taste-based prompt, and has reliably picked movies for him and his girlfriend for months. When posted to r/Letterboxd, it was buried in downvotes seemingly purely for using AI — sparking a discussion about Reddit's reflexive hostility to anything AI-related, even personal utility tools.
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