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Not quite. a) we don't know how the recommender works, and it changes over time, and some problematic recommendations have been found even in absence of active
by uniqueuid 5y ago
Not quite.
a) we don't know how the recommender works, and it changes over time, and some problematic recommendations have been found even in absence of actively seeking out problematic content, and
b) it's not journalists but researchers from mozilla and scientists from the University of Exeter.
- azangru 5y ago> some problematic recommendations have been found even in absence of actively seeking out problematic content I don't know how to put it in proper terms, but isn't it possible that the user who has watched videos A and B ("non-problematic") is classified the same as a subset of users who have watched A, B and C (C being "problematic"), and thus is shown C? Asking because personally, I've never seen my "safe for work" youtube account ever recommend me anything "problematic". At the moment, it's just feeding me music videos of the same genre, which I am already bored by :-)
- uniqueuid 5y agoBoth happens. Some studies such as [1] measure recommendations without past browsing history, and they still find recommendations for harmful content. Other studies (such as this from Berkman Klein Center [2]) simulate user behavior and subsequent recommendations and find additional harmful effects of personalized recommendations. [1] Faddoul, M., Chaslot, G., & Farid, H. (2020). A Longitudinal Analysis of YouTube’s Promotion of Conspiracy Videos. ArXiv:2003.03318 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03318 http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03318 [2] https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2019-06/youtubes-digital-playground https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2019-06/youtubes-digital-pla...