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It's insanely biased towards popularity. I watched this series of like 40 videos on extremely large numbers. And not one time did I ever see one in my recomme
by fallingknife 4y ago
It's insanely biased towards popularity. I watched this series of like 40 videos on extremely large numbers. And not one time did I ever see one in my recommendations. You would think when you've watched 1-20 of something the algorithm would be smart enough to suggest 21 but no.
- twiss 4y agoIt does do that for me, and it also regularly recommends videos with <1K views if it's from a channel I often watch. It even sometimes recommends videos with <100 views from channels I don't know if it's on a topic I watch videos on regularly. So it seems the algorithm doesn't do the same thing for everyone.
- sph 4y agoWhat's funny is that the super smart AI behind the rec engine in YouTube sometimes is so dumb it can't figure out that video #3 in a series with consistent titles should be followed by video #4. Sometimes it just gets it wrong and skips one, other times it just recommends some other totally unrelated video even if you've been watching the same numbered series forever. And it's got a short enough memory span that one day it'll recommend out of the blue, for weeks, video #57 of a series you've seen a couple years ago.
- mrguyorama 4y agoI wonder how many of the "algorithm's" problems are caused by a huge number of literal toddlers that just hit buttons at random. How many parents just sit their kid at an iPad for some time to do something?