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Is YouTube's video recommendation algorithm completely borked?

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Andy Chee:

--- Quote from: BrianHG on February 03, 2024, 12:38:57 pm ---Arrrrgggg, I played your attached video.
Now my recommendations are nothing but daft punk music...
And for some reason cat and other animal videos...

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Here's an experiment. 

Assuming that browsing shapes the algorithm, everyone reading this thread should try and "influence" the algorithm by viewing the same playlist of videos (don't need to watch the entire video, just a few seconds for the algorithm to register a view).

This forum effectively has a ready made playlist in the Fun for Nerds thread.

I would be fascinated whether such coordinated viewing from separate EEVblog members, would be sufficient to shape the recommendations presented to an anonymous user browsing YouTube who had never heard of EEVblog.

DiTBho:

--- Quote from: BrianHG on February 03, 2024, 12:38:57 pm ---Arrrrgggg, I played your attached video.
Now my recommendations are nothing but daft punk music...
And for some reason cat and other animal videos...

--- End quote ---

that's precisely the point: there is no connection!

- cross-correlation (Scarlett Johansson, Milla Jovovich ) = { female gender, actresses }
- cross-correlation (Milla Jovovich, Poppy) = { female gender }
- cross-correlation (Molly Millions, Poppy) = { female gender }
- cross-correlation (Scarlett Johansson, Poppy) = { female gender }
- cross-correlation (my favourite music, Poppy) = { }

and there is no correlation even with the covers I moved the mouse over, without clicking to see the video.

Interesting still, I am 100% sure it doesn't even have anything to do with what he suggests to you, after having seen Poppi's video, and the fact that YouTube now (guess "randomly?") offers me videos of two girls:

one who is a marine biologist girl, gets on rubber dinghies on freezing water to mark killer whales (brrrr)
the other girl who instead tries to demonstrate how the hands of primate monkeys were much more similar to the hands of us Homo Sapiense than the hands of chimpanzees, which means that we are not descended from monkeys, but that we ARE a branch of monkeys

and I never clicked/overed my mouse on any of these things X___________X

SiliconWizard:
I think that's just the beginning of this though. Ultimately, the online services you use will tell you what you want and what you like, and you won't question it anymore. Resistance is futile.

Excavatoree:
I don't know if it's because I watch Dave's videos, or if it's random, or some other reason, but I kept seeing a bunch of drain cleaning videos from a couple of Australian plumbers.  I broke down and watched  a few, and one of the guys uses the same expressions as Dave, but in a totally different context.   The guy's entertaining, so I've continued to watch.  I never thought I'd watch a bunch of drain videos.

kud_:
It's getting worst.

I remember times, when listening to music or watching some video, next recommended one were pretty similar.

Right now youtube doesn't care what you're listening to. You're listening to some music? OK, so yt will select next one as something popular or something that you listen a lot in the past.

And main page recommendation is tragic. And if you're unlucky and click on something weird but famous like Peterson (it can be critique of him, yt doesn't care) your whole main page will be full of that guy.

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