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by posguy 875 days ago
There is plenty of computing related stuff that Google doesn't do, has stopped doing or outsources nearly all of, whether it be ceasing to be a Domain Registrar, providing voice & texting services (Google Voice being just another Bandwidth.com frontend, Google Fi being an alternative onramp to the T-Mobile network, with identical roaming).

You mentioned social media, what social media happens on Google's platforms? Google Wave is long dead, Google Talk was broken so badly everyone I know stopped using it. Google Groups is a wasteland that just spams up Usenet, so everyone ignores it. Where is Google in action when it comes to social media?
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riku_iki 875 days ago
> what social media happens on Google's platforms?

youtube/youtube shorts have a lot "social media" going on

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spartanatreyu 875 days ago
Youtube is currently full of attention-bait, rage-bait, spam, scams, and AI noise.

It takes work over months of time to find youtube channels with value and a few more months to vet their worth.

While it IS a social media network, the majority of user content on the website is low-value spam comments.

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riku_iki 875 days ago
> Youtube is currently full of attention-bait, rage-bait, spam, scams, and AI noise.

there is a chance youtube ML gives you recommendations based on your interests.. I find a lot of good quality content on youtube.

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spartanatreyu 871 days ago
The problem is that one wrong video leads to a cascade of bad suggestions.

Opening one video that looks legit but is really AI noise leads to your recommendations filling with other AI noise.

Opening one video with a completely misrepresented title leads to your recommendations filling with attention-bait, rage-bait, etc...

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riku_iki 871 days ago
If I would be youtube ML engineer, I would use some engagement metric as a label in loss function: for example how many % of video you actually watched, not just fact that you clicked on it.
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paulddraper 875 days ago
> what social media

Little thing called "YouTube"

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paulddraper 874 days ago
"Plenty of computing related stuff that Google doesn't do, for example all of this stuff that Google does or is involved in"
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