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>>furcyd+(OP)
Does the algorithm incentivize bad behavior or simply reflect the desires of the viewers?

Someone watching lots of DIY home repair videos will start seeing more. In that case it seems like it's incentivizing good behavior. Likewise, someone watching lots of soft porn on YouTube will be recommended more soft porn.

The algorithm isn't responsible for helping you make good life choices. The algorithm is responsible for recommending videos that you would like, and it seems like it does a good job of that, generally.

Unfortunately, some people like bad things and that's an age old problem that is hard to fix.

That said, it would be nice if users could CTOA (choose their own algorithm) instead of letting Google be the sole gatekeeper.

>>umvi+Dg
In my experience, some ~20 % of recommendations almost always go towards noticably more clickbaity/low-quality content (with rest often fitting quite well, or at least being of a similar level, just on topics that happen to not interest me right now), and as soon as you make the mistake to click one of them it shoots up dramatically. I've taken to open videos I'm not sure about in a private tab to avoid 2 weeks of crap recommendations.