Whenever something seems wrong with social media, ask yourself "what is the real product here?" and check if what your seeing aligns with that. I didn't want t

Whenever something seems wrong with social media, ask yourself "what is the real product here?" and check if what your seeing aligns with that. I didn't want to spend a half hour watching those goofballs in the video explain that their spreadsheets really mean something, so I took my own dumb stab at it. Pre: Advertising partners hand YouTube money and say "We would like to target the following list of keywords..." Event: a new video title appears! 1. Parse title for keywords 2. If there's a match from keywords to advertisers, mark as monetized, and serve up the ads. 3. Else, there is no one left to monetize this video. Mark as demonitized. No idea if it works this way. But even this naive algorithm could have a similar effect to the one being seen. So on one hand, it seems like a Won't Fix, because this is the product, and it's functioning as designed. On the other hand, this might be a nasty enough side effect that they should consider not doing it this way. This is like a soft preview of the AI Alignment Problem.