This is the reinforcement learning system talk that was mentioned in the New York Times article about how YOUTUBE creates radicalized people.
The Google engineers who unleashed this on the world are Minmin Chen, Paul Covington, Alex Beutel, Ed Chi, Sagar Jain, Francois Belletti and Can Xu.
Youtube makes a lot of money from this approach by enticing viewers to stay on youtube longer and continuing to show them more alt-right and far right radical videos.
What needs to be uncovered is WHY their first tier recommendations start with the kind of grifting and far right sensationalist material that then floods their sidebar with more of the same.
It is immaterial if Youtube monetizes those streams, as their goal is simply to addict their customers to more videos for longer times, to show them advertisements.
Internet scale immoral behavior in the name of revenue. Blindness to how the far right keyworded and categorized their videos in a way that they were just there in the recommended streams of videos across the globe.
Has Youtube or Google accepted responsibility for this after the NY Times article by Kevin Roose on Caleb Cain's radicalization?
Have they refactored how this all works? Or are they still doing evil?
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[ 0.16 ms ] story [ 13.9 ms ] threadThe Google engineers who unleashed this on the world are Minmin Chen, Paul Covington, Alex Beutel, Ed Chi, Sagar Jain, Francois Belletti and Can Xu.
Youtube makes a lot of money from this approach by enticing viewers to stay on youtube longer and continuing to show them more alt-right and far right radical videos.
What needs to be uncovered is WHY their first tier recommendations start with the kind of grifting and far right sensationalist material that then floods their sidebar with more of the same.
It is immaterial if Youtube monetizes those streams, as their goal is simply to addict their customers to more videos for longer times, to show them advertisements.
Internet scale immoral behavior in the name of revenue. Blindness to how the far right keyworded and categorized their videos in a way that they were just there in the recommended streams of videos across the globe.
Has Youtube or Google accepted responsibility for this after the NY Times article by Kevin Roose on Caleb Cain's radicalization?
Have they refactored how this all works? Or are they still doing evil?