When CB brings in new anonymous users from affiliate programs where do they land them?
Unfortunately hard-programmed one-size-fits-all room ranking can result in a feedback loop with just a few rooms receiving the bulk of directs. It's not trivial to avoid this.
These days anyone and everyone including anons could be directed through personalized room ranking managed by AI which is trained to maximize signups, hold times, and spending. Users have attributes and history, rooms the same, and CB has ample data to train an LLM. I'm not saying they ARE doing it, but maybe they should. It wouldn't be perfect, but even a 1% match is better than 0.001%.
AI would organically sidestep the problems of thumb ratings by focusing on what really matters to CB - growth and profit. And allow models to focus less on thumbs and more on the experience they are creating, relying on AI to direct the appropriate audience. Imagine as a model laughing at an abusive user's thumb-down while you quietly ban them, because you don't show thumbs and they don't matter: "mmm mmm mmm - vent away @bigtightwad4u". The only impact would be that your room would go to the last page of that user's thumbnails with all the other rooms they down-voted.
Unfortunately hard-programmed one-size-fits-all room ranking can result in a feedback loop with just a few rooms receiving the bulk of directs. It's not trivial to avoid this.
These days anyone and everyone including anons could be directed through personalized room ranking managed by AI which is trained to maximize signups, hold times, and spending. Users have attributes and history, rooms the same, and CB has ample data to train an LLM. I'm not saying they ARE doing it, but maybe they should. It wouldn't be perfect, but even a 1% match is better than 0.001%.
AI would organically sidestep the problems of thumb ratings by focusing on what really matters to CB - growth and profit. And allow models to focus less on thumbs and more on the experience they are creating, relying on AI to direct the appropriate audience. Imagine as a model laughing at an abusive user's thumb-down while you quietly ban them, because you don't show thumbs and they don't matter: "mmm mmm mmm - vent away @bigtightwad4u". The only impact would be that your room would go to the last page of that user's thumbnails with all the other rooms they down-voted.


