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This is a pretty interesting account of the recommendation algorithms at work: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html
by untog 8y ago
This is a pretty interesting account of the recommendation algorithms at work:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po...
It links to this WSJ investigation:
How YouTube Drives People to the Internet’s Darkest Corners https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-youtube-drives-viewers-to-the-internets-darkest-corners-1518020478 https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-youtube-drives-viewers-to-t...
I suspect people who watch a lot of YouTube aren't as badly affected as there is a large dataset to recommend from.