Re:'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorit...
by pulisse on Saturday February 03, 2018 @08:05PM
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Trying to police the truth will not end well; somebody will end up corrupting the systems in ways that end badly.
YouTube's recommendation policy is currently, to a zeroth-order approximation, "push content that gets people riled up". Trying to get them to not follow that policy isn't policing truth; it's asking them to refrain from an affirmative act.
YouTube's recommendation policy is currently, to a zeroth-order approximation, "push content that gets people riled up". Trying to get them to not follow that policy isn't policing truth; it's asking them to refrain from an affirmative act.