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Has it failed? Youtube and tiktok's strategy of using top notch AI to hypertarget a tsunami of really cheap and mediocre content seems to work pretty well.
by pydry 4y ago
Has it failed? Youtube and tiktok's strategy of using top notch AI to hypertarget a tsunami of really cheap and mediocre content seems to work pretty well.
- fullshark 4y agoI think it failed for Netflix, those two sites have massive corpuses and a constantly pumping pipeline of fresh content. I guess they also figured out the economics re: paying content creators to ensure that's the case, Netflix I think dropped billions to establish IP to keep people hooked to Netflix and failed.
- polartx 4y agoI can’t speak for TikTok (as I’m not a user), but I haven’t met anyone that would consider YouTube’s recommendation algo any good at all. I believe most users share the experience of pausing their scrolling to deliberately say “Don’t recommend this channel”, or “I’m not interested in this”. Recommendations have to be pretty terrible for users to break the apathetic endless scrolling motion they’ve been conditioned to embrace, and make several distinct and deliberate clicks amounting to the provided feedback, “stop annoying me with how much you suck”