A report created by the Mozilla Foundation shows that a huge number of videos recommended by Youtube violate the policies of use of the platform itself. The algorithm that is responsible for offering you videos may not be well prepared to offer you the content you really want to see.
This research has confirmed that youtube’s algorithm that recommends videos to its users seems to be not paying attention to whether the video they offer can cause another similar but not the same video to be recommended. And you get into a maelstrom of videos that can become offensive or that you don’t want to watch.
YouTube represents one of the most sophisticated and scaleplatform for watching and posting videos. Youtube has an algorithm that works as a high-level system that is based on improvements in its systems based on deep learning.
In a research paper published in 2016,a group of Google engineers shared their plans on how videos might appear through YouTube’s recommendation engine for a better user experience.
This work is quite relevant since according to youTube’s product manager, 70% of YouTube views now come from this recommendation engine. That is, you go to watch a video on Youtube and the platform offers you, as a gift, other videos that it recommends precisely why you are watching the current video.
The Mozilla foundation has presented a paper with quite a few examples of people complaining because youtube’s algorithm offers them videos they don’t want to see. Or even, that they are not appropriate for your children. On many occasions, you look for a specific topic such as videos of a drag queen and in the recommendations they offer you videos full of LGBT hatred.
There is also the case that you look for information about science and end up seeing that you are recommended videos of conspiracies, illuminated, stories of aliens, pyramid scams, (see Ads on YouTube that lead to fake pages, etc.
In view of the work done, the Mozilla Foundation is working on a series of tips for Youtube and other platforms to improve their video recommendation processes. These tips referring to Youtube and similar platforms would be:
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