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Is the YouTube algorithm corrupt by sponsor?

1 pointsby aurelienover 3 years ago
get a new MAC .. A New PC .... open a YouTube without any account .. and let it run ... After 1 day you will fall in religious, militarist, bullshit music and stuff ... rarely in astrophysics, mathematics or philosophy. Is Alphabet a pornocrastic company made by evil?

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ravenstineover 3 years ago
That could very well be but, lacking any conclusive information, my first instinct is that their algorithms are just stupid and that Google&#x27;s AI capabilities are overrated.<p>With my YouTube account, I&#x27;ve had this problem for many years where the autoplay gets &quot;stuck&quot; on a particular channel, and this can last several months. Back around 2018 it got stuck only recommending Jordan Peterson videos. I&#x27;m not a Jordan Peterson fanboy, but I did watch a few of his videos and as a result YouTube believed that I only wanted to watch JP and nothing else. Nearly the entire list of videos on the right-hand side above at least the first few folds were nothing but JP. I would mark some of the videos as &quot;not interested&quot;, but I hesitated because it&#x27;s not like I didn&#x27;t want to never see the videos. Eventually it magically got unstuck, and things would be fine for a while until it got stuck on something else. Last year it got stuck on Lex Fridman for several months. I could be watching a video on video gameplay and then it would suddenly move on to a Lex Fridman episode I&#x27;d already seen.<p>Maybe they&#x27;re both corrupt and just not that sophisticated. All I know is that its recommendation engine is faulty and they refuse to show me the latest content from all of my subscriptions.
sharemywinover 3 years ago
or is it just a reflection of the internet zeitgeist?