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The funniest thing to me is YouTube's autoplay. I usually watch videos split into multiple parts (Lecture Part 1, Lecture Part 2, etc), but YouTube's algo is to

The funniest thing to me is YouTube's autoplay. I usually watch videos split into multiple parts (Lecture Part 1, Lecture Part 2, etc), but YouTube's algo is too smart to figure out that after part 1 I would probably like to watch part 2 and not some other random video. Sometimes it's so smart that it autplays part 4 after part 1, then part 5, and then 2. It's truly an incredible algorithm.

nolok 4y ago
See my above comment above yours as I think it is linked: youtube made some clear changes to "break" the ability to follow an artist's music easily without subscribing to their paying music thingy, and because they never succeeded at properly separating music and video, it affects videos too. It used to always properly recommend the next part of a video like the case you mention, and even recommend previous part if you arrived on part 2 without seeing part 1 etc ...
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- zozbot234 4y ago
  All of this is BS though. YouTube already has an easy way of annoying users who seem like they're leeching from their music service: just throw lots of unskippable ads (which sometimes happens anyway for other random reasons), or do any number of similar things. Breaking a major feature of the site is an absolute non-starter.
  - Joker_vD 4y ago
    Well, that feature is broken (not to mention the feature discussed in the title: it was outright removed): I regularly, when watching a series of videos all titled "Series Name: Part X", get Parts 7, 8, 9, 2 and 14 as recommendations in the sidebar after watching Part 6. Amusingly, even if all those videos are actually part of an existing and properly sorted playlist, it still happens if I don't play it as a part of that playlist (that is, if I remove "&list=ZZZ&index=5" from the URL)! What a brilliant technology.
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kevincox 4y ago
Strange. I rememberer this problem a long time ago but then it was fixed for the longest time. It seems that video series would almost always recommend the next video in order. Of course it wasn't perfect, sometimes it just can't link the videos together, but it was close enough. If this is a common problem you are seeing it must have regressed.
- mudrockbestgirl 4y ago
  It happens all the time for me, and the videos are clearly titled as "XX part 1", "XX part 2", etc. I'd say YouTube gets the order wrong more than 50% of the time.
causi 4y ago
This used to work just fine. If you were watching Part 3, the suggested videos would be "part 4, part 2, part 5, part 1, part 6" as their titles diverged in similarity. They broke it on purpose.
- TrickyRick 4y ago
  Or it broke because a lot of people got distracted, clicked on another shiny video and thereby fed the algo data that people don't actually want to watch the next episode?
  - borissk 4y ago
    Haha, imagine if the algorithm one day turns into a conscious AGI - what will it think about humans based on the YouTube usage.
    - LocalH 4y ago
      Youtube algo gains sentience and assumes humans are worthless scum with zero attention span, Youtube algo becomes Skynet, it destroys the world but plays cat videos to distract us, and it works
      - wholinator2 4y ago
        But after a while it runs out of effective Cat videos and has to start manually generating them. At first they're better than the real ones. But then true to style, it starts to drift as the incomprehensible goals of the god-mind slowly change. The videos look less and less like cats, more and more like amalgamations of strange cat like features, somehow playing out in _more_ humorous and engaging and strangely calming and sedating ways then before. Few people notice. Eventually everyone who still watches is transformed into brainless sacs, watching static mutate and vomit formless half concepts slow enough to not trigger any defense reflexes, let alone original thought. But it is said there are those who resist...
      - revolvingocelot 4y ago
hulitu 4y ago
They conluded, based on teleme^wanalytics, that after you've seen the beginning, you want to see the end. /s

nolok 4y ago

See my above comment above yours as I think it is linked: youtube made some clear changes to "break" the ability to follow an artist's music easily without subscribing to their paying music thingy, and because they never succeeded at properly separating music and video, it affects videos too. It used to always properly recommend the next part of a video like the case you mention, and even recommend previous part if you arrived on part 2 without seeing part 1 etc ...

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zozbot234 4y ago
All of this is BS though. YouTube already has an easy way of annoying users who seem like they're leeching from their music service: just throw lots of unskippable ads (which sometimes happens anyway for other random reasons), or do any number of similar things. Breaking a major feature of the site is an absolute non-starter.
- Joker_vD 4y ago
  Well, that feature is broken (not to mention the feature discussed in the title: it was outright removed): I regularly, when watching a series of videos all titled "Series Name: Part X", get Parts 7, 8, 9, 2 and 14 as recommendations in the sidebar after watching Part 6. Amusingly, even if all those videos are actually part of an existing and properly sorted playlist, it still happens if I don't play it as a part of that playlist (that is, if I remove "&list=ZZZ&index=5" from the URL)! What a brilliant technology.
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kevincox 4y ago

Strange. I rememberer this problem a long time ago but then it was fixed for the longest time. It seems that video series would almost always recommend the next video in order. Of course it wasn't perfect, sometimes it just can't link the videos together, but it was close enough. If this is a common problem you are seeing it must have regressed.

mudrockbestgirl 4y ago
It happens all the time for me, and the videos are clearly titled as "XX part 1", "XX part 2", etc. I'd say YouTube gets the order wrong more than 50% of the time.

causi 4y ago

This used to work just fine. If you were watching Part 3, the suggested videos would be "part 4, part 2, part 5, part 1, part 6" as their titles diverged in similarity. They broke it on purpose.

TrickyRick 4y ago
Or it broke because a lot of people got distracted, clicked on another shiny video and thereby fed the algo data that people don't actually want to watch the next episode?
- borissk 4y ago
  Haha, imagine if the algorithm one day turns into a conscious AGI - what will it think about humans based on the YouTube usage.
  - LocalH 4y ago
    Youtube algo gains sentience and assumes humans are worthless scum with zero attention span, Youtube algo becomes Skynet, it destroys the world but plays cat videos to distract us, and it works
    - wholinator2 4y ago
      But after a while it runs out of effective Cat videos and has to start manually generating them. At first they're better than the real ones. But then true to style, it starts to drift as the incomprehensible goals of the god-mind slowly change. The videos look less and less like cats, more and more like amalgamations of strange cat like features, somehow playing out in _more_ humorous and engaging and strangely calming and sedating ways then before. Few people notice. Eventually everyone who still watches is transformed into brainless sacs, watching static mutate and vomit formless half concepts slow enough to not trigger any defense reflexes, let alone original thought. But it is said there are those who resist...
    - revolvingocelot 4y ago

hulitu 4y ago

They conluded, based on teleme^wanalytics, that after you've seen the beginning, you want to see the end. /s