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The cost of the number of humans required to exclusively curate youtube would render the platform unprofitable in very short order.
by glitchc 7y ago
The cost of the number of humans required to exclusively curate youtube would render the platform unprofitable in very short order.
- PLenz 7y agoThen maybe they go out of business. Capitalism doesn't guarantee that a firm's business plan will work forever.
- glitchc 7y agoAs long as the advertisers don’t complain, their AI-based business model is perfectly viable. On youtube, both the creators and the consumers are the product. The advertisers are the customers.
- root_axis 7y agoWell yeah, the point is that YouTube would not engage in a business plan that they believe would put them out of business.