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Yes I find YouTube typically recommends new content for me that I enjoy. No I don't get too much political content, although when I see political content I gen
by mgraczyk 6y ago
Yes I find YouTube typically recommends new content for me that I enjoy.
No I don't get too much political content, although when I see political content I generally tell YouTube that I am "not interested".
I don't work there so I don't know what they are optimizing for. Based on their papers it is probably a combination of total watch time, total interactions (likes comments), and minimizing certain kinds of "integrity problems" like views on eventually-removed content.
Yes my company, and I would guess most others, are trying to recommend content that people enjoy and provides long term value for the viewer, not just short term watch time. It's hard to do this for everyone, but ML-based recommendation systems are better than any heuristic for 95%+ of people.