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Youtube is currently full of attention-bait, rage-bait, spam, scams, and AI noise. It takes work over months of time to find youtube channels with value and a
by spartanatreyu 3y ago
Youtube is currently full of attention-bait, rage-bait, spam, scams, and AI noise.
It takes work over months of time to find youtube channels with value and a few more months to vet their worth.
While it IS a social media network, the majority of user content on the website is low-value spam comments.
- riku_iki 3y ago> Youtube is currently full of attention-bait, rage-bait, spam, scams, and AI noise. there is a chance youtube ML gives you recommendations based on your interests.. I find a lot of good quality content on youtube.
- spartanatreyu 3y agoThe problem is that one wrong video leads to a cascade of bad suggestions. Opening one video that looks legit but is really AI noise leads to your recommendations filling with other AI noise. Opening one video with a completely misrepresented title leads to your recommendations filling with attention-bait, rage-bait, etc...
- riku_iki 3y agoIf I would be youtube ML engineer, I would use some engagement metric as a label in loss function: for example how many % of video you actually watched, not just fact that you clicked on it.