[naiveai]

This article has a catchy title, but is absolutely terrible. Curated human recommendations and/or "YouTube staffers should think like journalists" are both two of the worst ideas for the internet I've heard in quite a long time. They don't reduce bias by any significant amount consistently (and I suspect the authors know this), and thinking of a platform where millions of seperate people upload ungodly amounts of content per second as a platform to be curated just like a news site is just fundamentally misunderstanding the scale and nature of Cyberspace.

[Nasrudith]

I think it is a case of "riding crop makers demand cars and trains use more horses". Self interested willful ignorance that it doesn't work that way and besides - if you want nothing is stopping you from maintaining your own lists on YouTube - but it probably won't be popular. They need to earn the position they want - not getting handed to them after demanding it.

[humanrebar]

Curate it like a radio station or network then.

The curated playlists on Google Music are pretty nice. I wouldn't mind seeing something like that for video, especially targeted at kids with various age ranges, activities, moods, and interests.

[kalleboo]

> Curate it like a radio station

Radio is even more full of garbage than YouTube!

The curated playlists on Apple Music are decent but they're too short and there are too few of them. There's also nothing stopping a third party curating YouTube and sharing recommended playlists - it's just too hard to find a mass audience with generic recommendations.