Weirdly it seems to be because of scale - YouTube is just so big with such a high volume of videos, user data, and new videos, they can't yet run the ML algorit

Weirdly it seems to be because of scale - YouTube is just so big with such a high volume of videos, user data, and new videos, they can't yet run the ML algorithms they'd really want to over the whole corpus. https://www.quora.com/How-does-YouTubes-recommendation-algorithm-work/answer/Francis-Irving https://www.quora.com/How-does-YouTubes-recommendation-algor... So meanwhile we get emotionally-stunted video recommendations from a savant toddler. It's really harmful.