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Re:YouTube’s Algorithm Incentivizes the Wrong Behavior by pythonwutang on Friday June 14, 2019 @06:55PM (#20187342)
> They cannot use anything except an algorithm to recommend videos

That’s assuming recommendations need to be personalized. They could recommend at a higher level to groups of people using attributes like age range or region.

I’m not a fan of their personalized recommendations. It’s algorithm overfits my views to recommend videos extremely similar to videos I’ve recently watched, which isn’t really aligned with my interests.

If they took a completely different approach (not personalized) it could really impact the UX in a positive way.

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Re:YouTube’s Algorithm Incentivizes the Wrong Behavior by icebraining on Saturday June 15, 2019 @08:21AM (#20189674)
No thanks. You try logging out and see the generic recommendations. It's the lowest common denominator, just like anything else targeted at large masses of people.
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