In other news, eating shit will make you ill
That’s liberal propaganda
Neutralize the liberal threat with some horse dewormer and a side bleach.
breaking news: fork found in kitchen
It doesn’t need to be a “conspiracy theory” for immigrants to support pro-immigration policies leading to a positive feedback loop? It’s a pretty straight forward eventuality
There’s basically two parties to pick from in the US and right now it’s a no brainer
Funny how they didn’t seem to care about the white immigrants from South Africa
“Should send them back to Africa!” As the fucking racists are so fond of saying.
Now you’re pro deporting? Classic
Oh hell no you’re Aussie trying to tell us about our domestic politics??
Positive feedback loop of what? More Americans? Just own up to your fucking racism, shithead
How the fuck is that racism lmfao
Of course immigrants will vote for a party that doesn’t deport them enmasse to countries they aren’t even from
But let’s continue to attack each other, that’ll be really productive
We’re an immigrant nation that’s the point the founding fathers were all immigrants, yes pro immigrant is the default position the way it’s been since 1776.
I stumbled into a “default” YT algorithm today, and was bombarded with all sorts of, for lack of a better word, podcast bros. Mostly conservative ragebait, though it sampled a little of everything.
…Humanity is cooked, aren’t we?
It has to be on purpose. I have to clear out history and watch to try and normalize. I think Shane Gillis is a gateway
Not necessary true. I have my watch history off, been off for years. A couple days ago they took away recommended videos from its home page. I toggle watch history to get recommended back, and I got the same thing. Tons of chud content.
I really don’t think it’s “on purpose” trying to push a narrative. I think it’s “on purpose” the algorithm sees that displaying videos #9342 and #667 to new audiences tends to result in the new viewer watching more videos over time.
It’s incidental that those videos are bad for society. If human behavior taught the algorithm high quality educational videos keeps audiences engaged longer this would be a non-issue.
Deciding to upkeep an algorithm knowing it does that is purposeful tho? The purpose of the system is what it does
The purpose of a system is the desired outcome. Other results are byproducts. The designed purpose is user engagement. The byproduct is the harm to society.
The purpose of a sewer system is to remove waste water from homes. The byproduct can be the smell coming from storm drains. You wouldn’t say the purpose of a sewer system is to make storm drains smell.
It’s rage-gagement, pure and simple. Outrage driven engagement makes the most profit; it’s similar to the pattern of online reviews: people are way more likely to leave a bad review than a good one and the same goes for nearly every interaction one can have on YouTube.
You also get weird stuff like this, “Documentary” on Biblical Giants we share a world with the people, the viewers, not giants.
To be fair, at least that’s interesting in a bullshit mythology fiction way.
With videos like that though: I am more annoyed with the constant AI read scripts. If somebody can’t be bothered to read a script, I can’t be bothered to watch.
And the comments… I can’t tell which are bots.
I peeked at unlogged in YouTube the other day, and it is horrifying.
Ew… I remember this one time I stayed at an AirBnB and forgot to log off YouTube on the TV. OMG the stuff that was in my feed for months!
Not that it helps now, but you can remove videos from your history so it doesn’t influence the type of videos it’s serving up.
Also, you can force log out of devices remotely
Don’t use the feed, then!
I’ve deleted official YT apps from my stuff. It’s just too manipulative. Using Unwatched to just queue up stuff on occasion is so much more peaceful.
I have depleted my stockpile of shock.
Holy 30 year old “news”, Batman!
it’s so intuitive that it frankly isn’t even oniony
This is not nottheonion. See the pinned post at the top of the community for why.
…would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Oh, I see.
More “water is wet” rather than an Onion piece IRL
This is just a reverse heat map:
I could have just told you this. Didn’t need a study, it’s pretty fucking obvious. And then they don’t believe in science so who is this for?
I hear you but the hallmark of science is that we don’t stop when things are pretty fucking obvious. We check anyway and document it.
I mean completely expected given the time FOX spends spreading it.
This is true of any news source that consistently hits certain narratives. Regular viewers will inevitably begin thinking those narratives are a bigger issue than they thought previously. How many foreigners are afraid to visit the United states because they fear getting shot or abducted by ICE, despite extremely low risk of either happening? It’s because of where they get their news. The only way to mitigate this is to get news from diverse sources and to talk with lots of different people.
