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Reader beware: watching one clip of Jordan Peterson will infect your Youtube recommendations with ‘woke’ videos for teens, and they will sit there for years to

by aasasd 4y ago

Reader beware: watching one clip of Jordan Peterson will infect your Youtube recommendations with ‘woke’ videos for teens, and they will sit there for years to come.

Stevvo 4y ago
Yeah, there is something going on there with the recommendations for controversial figures like Jordan. I just watched some of the lectures, the 3 to 4 hour ones on Pinocchio and the Bible. Now my recommendations are infected with "Jordan Peterson DESTROYS feminists"
- aasasd 4y ago
  My condolences. I'm pretty sure it may now take YouTube a full year to learn that you're not gonna watch that. Might be easier to remove the lectures from the ‘watch history’ and then methodically mark these recommendations as not interesting to you. Of course, idk if that doesn't also catch some properly good content by association.
  - engineer_22 4y ago
    I do wish YouTube's recommendations would open up a wider spectrum sometimes. It seems to get stuck on a half dozen topics on my Android TV
- engineer_22 4y ago
  They mostly go away, eventually.
  - Stevvo 4y ago
    I think watch time is big part of the formula; because they are long lectures it takes a lot of shorter videos to override their weight.
mistrial9 4y ago
as someone from "before the Internet" I find this tiny (real) anecdote about watching a single YouTube video "ruining recommendations" very powerful in all the wrong ways
- pvg 4y ago
  The reality is it's at most a minor inconvenience since these days youtube's recommendations can be controlled by telling youtube you don't want something recommended. You can depeterson yourself fairly easily if afflicted.
  - aasasd 4y ago
    The thing is, I'm never sure that YouTube learns that I don't want Peterson, and not that I'm allergic to e.g. feminism.
    - pvg 4y ago
      Yeah that's fair. My youtube usage is relatively narrow in topics so it's probably a little easier to deal with the blast radius.
    - Stevvo 4y ago
      I'm allergic to both sides of the culture war, but the algorithms seem to want me to be invested in someone's narrative on it.
fsckboy 4y ago
Jordan Peterson is anything but "woke"

by aasasd 4y ago

Reader beware: watching one clip of Jordan Peterson will infect your Youtube recommendations with ‘woke’ videos for teens, and they will sit there for years to come.

Stevvo 4y ago

Yeah, there is something going on there with the recommendations for controversial figures like Jordan. I just watched some of the lectures, the 3 to 4 hour ones on Pinocchio and the Bible. Now my recommendations are infected with "Jordan Peterson DESTROYS feminists"

aasasd 4y ago
My condolences. I'm pretty sure it may now take YouTube a full year to learn that you're not gonna watch that. Might be easier to remove the lectures from the ‘watch history’ and then methodically mark these recommendations as not interesting to you. Of course, idk if that doesn't also catch some properly good content by association.
- engineer_22 4y ago
  I do wish YouTube's recommendations would open up a wider spectrum sometimes. It seems to get stuck on a half dozen topics on my Android TV
engineer_22 4y ago
They mostly go away, eventually.
- Stevvo 4y ago
  I think watch time is big part of the formula; because they are long lectures it takes a lot of shorter videos to override their weight.

mistrial9 4y ago

as someone from "before the Internet" I find this tiny (real) anecdote about watching a single YouTube video "ruining recommendations" very powerful in all the wrong ways

pvg 4y ago
The reality is it's at most a minor inconvenience since these days youtube's recommendations can be controlled by telling youtube you don't want something recommended. You can depeterson yourself fairly easily if afflicted.
- aasasd 4y ago
  The thing is, I'm never sure that YouTube learns that I don't want Peterson, and not that I'm allergic to e.g. feminism.
  - pvg 4y ago
    Yeah that's fair. My youtube usage is relatively narrow in topics so it's probably a little easier to deal with the blast radius.
  - Stevvo 4y ago
    I'm allergic to both sides of the culture war, but the algorithms seem to want me to be invested in someone's narrative on it.

fsckboy 4y ago

Jordan Peterson is anything but "woke"