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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 ne

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
    Consider what the Youtube algo considers the desperately overloaded words "destroy", "murder", or "fail" to mean. Those who didn't fall prey to the cat videos, grittily forming some sort of Resistance, would have an even chance of being ruthlessly hunted by Terminators, tastelessly pranked, or excoriated by talking-head rhetoric without being given a chance to get a word in edgewise.
whoopdedo 4y ago
I'm watching a video about Z and the algorithm thinks that people who watched Z will also like X. Meanwhile there are ad bids for people who like Z, and also for people who like both Z and X. The Z+X auction outbids the Z-only buyers. If I click the next Z video instead of X, Google only gets paid the lower bid.
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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
  Consider what the Youtube algo considers the desperately overloaded words "destroy", "murder", or "fail" to mean. Those who didn't fall prey to the cat videos, grittily forming some sort of Resistance, would have an even chance of being ruthlessly hunted by Terminators, tastelessly pranked, or excoriated by talking-head rhetoric without being given a chance to get a word in edgewise.

whoopdedo 4y ago

I'm watching a video about Z and the algorithm thinks that people who watched Z will also like X. Meanwhile there are ad bids for people who like Z, and also for people who like both Z and X. The Z+X auction outbids the Z-only buyers. If I click the next Z video instead of X, Google only gets paid the lower bid.

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