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by riku_iki 878 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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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...

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.