[tw1010]

One day there will be a cottage industry focused specifically on exploiting the edge-case behaviour of these algorithms. It doesn't matter that the specifics of the algorithms are secret, there are always ways of reverse engineering them. That's the whole point of statistical inference.

[lithos]

There already is looking at Russian ad campaigns during the election. and youtube junk videos shown here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637504

SEO is pretty much the same thing in my opinion.

[drawkbox]

This is definitely happening.

Another type of YouTube video that is taking advantage of youtube blocking/copyrights are happening.

Basically these are YouTube videos that are about current events, content or blocked content with a robotic voice or music that describes the event with a series of photos, text, news and sometimes video clips.

Basically anything that is blocked from youtube, the algorithms post these robotic news videos that drone on that are algorithmically generated on any small news event that may fit this gap.

Lots of events like terror attacks, shootings, sports clips that have been removed, etc will flood in as soon as other content is blocked or removed or copyrighted and youtube can't have real videos about it.

This happened frequently after the Vegas shooting and other major events.

It also happens all the time to NFL content. For instance I was looking for Pierre Garcon's injury on youtube to see how serious it was, here's the type of fluff you will find (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1hZibQCdR8 & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI1CN0uDu-w & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2cJqaE4Em4 as an example and there are thousands of just Pierre Garcon's injury) because nfl videos are blocked immediately. If you search in google "pierre garcon injury youtube" you will get nothing but these videos.

[ben_jones]

50% of SEO is convincing non-technical users that they need to pay more for SEO. I imagine this'll be much of the same.

[walshemj]

no 90% is persuading businesses that the marketing directors the site the pen friend hi son built Is not fit for purpose.

Its even worse in big traditional firms took me 3 years at a major publisher to get a simple dns redirect done

[drhousejr]

One of the dumbest comments I've read on HN.