AP English Language and Composition Quiz
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RHETORICAL SITUATION: READING
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Read the following passage embedded in this prompt:
A streaming platform announces it will "revolutionize discovery" with an algorithm that predicts what viewers want. Executives cite higher click-through rates and longer watch times as proof the system works. But independent filmmakers notice their work vanishing from recommendations unless it resembles last year's hits. Viewers begin to feel that the platform has become a hallway of mirrors: every suggestion is a slightly altered version of what they already watched. A media critic argues that convenience is not the same as culture. When the algorithm optimizes for immediate engagement, it quietly narrows the range of stories people encounter, making riskier art harder to fund and easier to forget. The critic concludes that true discovery requires friction—curation, editorial judgment, and space for the unfamiliar—because a society that only consumes what it already likes eventually loses the ability to like anything new.
Taken as a whole, the passage suggests that…
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