GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix
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Netflix Technology Blog
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
LLM — A large language model — the neural network behind tools like Claude and ChatGPT, trained on huge amounts of text to predict what comes next.
hallucination — When a model states something false with full confidence — inventing facts, citations, or APIs that don't exist.
Why it matters
Off-the-shelf LLMs make poor recommenders — they over-recommend popular titles, hallucinationWhen a model states something false with full confidence — inventing facts, citations, or APIs that don't exist.Full definition → items outside the catalog, and ignore business constraints. Netflix post-trained an internal foundation model on its own data and objectives to close that gap in production.