YouTube recommendations suck so hard.<p>I'm subscribed to all this stuff but it never seems to give me similar content, it recommends all the videos I've already watched.<p>If I happen to watch something new, like a People's Court segment, then all I see is People's Court stuff.<p>There never seems to be balance.<p>Then there's the problem where a new video (like Gourmet Makes from BA) gets posted on a channel I like. I'll watch it with my partner on his machine, but then YouTube just chokes up, wondering why I never click on it, and then shoves it in my face ad nauseum.<p>Like, their search engine doesn't even seem to scratch the surface of content they're holding. It seems to be really stupid machine learning or AI.<p>Why can't it show me balanced recommendations from everything I watch or subscribe to, toss in some new things which are similar/popular, and maybe differentiate between content likely to be consumed multiple times (music videos) vs stuff people don't often watch a rerun of?<p>They seem to have so much data they could work with. They have amazing engineers and Google's expertise in algorithms.<p>Facebook even had problems with news feed being overrun with low quality content early on but seems to have figured it our fairly well- at least in my experience on the site (I know there are big echo chamber problems over there as well, don't get me wrong).<p>Even a lot of my non-techie friends seem to complain often about how terrible YouTube's recommendations are.