we're all guilty of falling into the rabbit hole when browsing YouTube but
could YouTube's new algorithm be sending us down a terrible path
welcome to inform overload I'm your host jöhnny Rogers and if you're new to the
channel we tell you about the most interesting news stories that we find on
the Internet and we make them more entertaining according to a Pew Research
study a video called bath song was recommended more than 650 times when
Pugh used a tracking system to observe recommendations given by YouTube I can't
believe that song exists by the way just the only bath song I have when I was a
kid was my parents just screaming at me to get in the shower do we seriously
need a song to coerce kids into being clean I mean it's nuts it's believed
that YouTube's new algorithm is continuously pushing videos that are
already popular as well thus dimming the light on perhaps smaller more fringe
channels and videos among the popular kids nursery rhyme videos YouTube also
favored longer content the thought behind this is that it keeps users on
the platform for extended periods of time the algorithmic tracking system
found that at least 64 percent of the recommendations were videos that already
had over a million views on average these videos have been viewed more than
456 million times each this study is interesting but it's also forgetting
that YouTube caters its content to specific user searches if they're using
blank tracking system to randomly select there isn't going to be really any rhyme
or reason for the recommendations other than popular videos my concern is that
if you're begging to like fake news or whatever YouTube will continue to push
whatever ideology you have it's a system that can't comprehend the damage that is
doing to our psyche especially by showing you more videos that you already
agree with it's good to have a difference in opinions so that you can
have empathy for the other side and at least be able to debate opposing
opinions it really is difficult to point fingers in this new dark algorithm for
YouTube though it's not like an engineer made the program to push longer and more
popular videos they simply design the algorithm to achieve YouTube's desires
of providing fresh content for all of its users that also kept them on the
platform and as a result the system chose to use this method so if you're a
kid using YouTube it shows you long more popular videos usually of the same
genre if your video searches for are all propaganda and conspiracy theories it
will apply the same method that's why we need to be careful YouTube is also
suggesting that children specifically use the YouTube kids app for this reason
there have been many cases of kids searching videos on YouTube that are
harmless in nature but have allowed them to stumble upon more inappropriate
videos due to the recommendations with that let's entertain your brain with
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