Re:YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
by kazinator on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:16PM
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> Create a new account, watch any political video, and then click through the suggestions. Keep clicking through the suggestions and in hour you will be on some extremist nonsense.
Could that simply be the inevitable effect of Youtube being filled with garbage? It seems that suggestions linked to the current video by some keyword match (or whatever) but otherwise random would have this problem.
E.g. if you pick a good political YT video on some topic, and then randomly select half a dozen other YT videos on the same topic, they are probably garbage.
So while the selection process isn't blameless (it could be improved to promote quality videos) much of the fault lies with the quality of the available material.
How would the selection process promote quality? How does the machine know that? You can't tell from the likes and dislikes; such populist metrics would promote garbage all the same. It seems that it would require a large team of workers to curate videos.
Could that simply be the inevitable effect of Youtube being filled with garbage? It seems that suggestions linked to the current video by some keyword match (or whatever) but otherwise random would have this problem.
E.g. if you pick a good political YT video on some topic, and then randomly select half a dozen other YT videos on the same topic, they are probably garbage.
So while the selection process isn't blameless (it could be improved to promote quality videos) much of the fault lies with the quality of the available material.
How would the selection process promote quality? How does the machine know that? You can't tell from the likes and dislikes; such populist metrics would promote garbage all the same. It seems that it would require a large team of workers to curate videos.