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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by cracoucax on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @03:30PM (#39770998)
Actually much more impressive than the research videos, he clearly knows his way around youtube
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by INTPenis on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @04:31PM (#39771672)
Until they make a sudden and illogical change to their design.
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by ethbr1 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @04:46PM (#39771811)
YouTube UX: "We have this one weird cohort that's responding abnormally to all our UI A/B testing..."
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by kibwen on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @04:51PM (#39771866)
Only until enough parrot owners find out about this, at which point parrots overtake the human population of Youtube and the metrics start catering to them.
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by ethbr1 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @05:50PM (#39772415)
YouTube optimizing for toddlers and parrots makes a lot of sense, now that I think about it...

And that's to say nothing of the parrot ad click farms.

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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by 082349872349872 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @05:03PM (#39772008)
> and the metrics start catering to them

"in order to access this functionality, you must first chew through the charging cable"

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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by layer8 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:13PM (#39773588)
Just wait until the stochastic parrots discover YouTube…
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by qohen on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:17AM (#39775627)
Leading to something a bit like this, then? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31XFe2g98RU
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by riwsky on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @05:55PM (#39772463)
Parrots are the original stochastic parrot
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by yieldcrv on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:00PM (#39773483)
“Odd that its 50 year old males in Florida”
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by crooked-v on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @05:23PM (#39772175)
And on top of that, can obviously recognize parrots in the video thumbnails.
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by MichaelZuo on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @06:45PM (#39772933)
It’s incredible that a 90 second video of someone with a pet parrot and an iPad is more illuminating then the average paper…
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by makeitdouble on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:51PM (#39773811)
This is truely the magic of the internet.

The earnestest researcher can't go survey every parrot in every home all around the world, but parrot owners can casually expose what their own parrots do.

Reminds me of the Twitter thread where a mite researcher discovers a new species in a photo posted by an amateur photographer.

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