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Re:Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations by thomasahle on Sunday September 04, 2016 @05:10PM (#12426724)
Mine seem like they have gotten a lot more click-baity. I wonder if that's an artifact of their optimization goal.
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Re:Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations by artifaxx on Sunday September 04, 2016 @05:20PM (#12426768)
If people fall for the click bait(they do), then they get more views from optimizing for it. It would be more surprising if an optimization algorithm for views didn't favor this.
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Re:Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations by brokenmachine on Sunday September 04, 2016 @06:58PM (#12427138)
Probably some part of it is that there's more clickbait videos being created now, which is making them get more views.

It's a vicious clickbaity cycle.

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