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Re:YouTube faces creator backlash by glitchc on Monday July 29, 2019 @12:31PM (#20556379)
The cost of the number of humans required to exclusively curate youtube would render the platform unprofitable in very short order.
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Re:YouTube faces creator backlash by PLenz on Monday July 29, 2019 @12:39PM (#20556485)
Then maybe they go out of business. Capitalism doesn't guarantee that a firm's business plan will work forever.
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Re:YouTube faces creator backlash by glitchc on Monday July 29, 2019 @12:42PM (#20556525)
As long as the advertisers don’t complain, their AI-based business model is perfectly viable.

On youtube, both the creators and the consumers are the product. The advertisers are the customers.

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Re:YouTube faces creator backlash by root_axis on Monday July 29, 2019 @06:58PM (#20560361)
Well yeah, the point is that YouTube would not engage in a business plan that they believe would put them out of business.
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