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>>furcyd+(OP)
"If YouTube won’t remove the algorithm, it must, at the very least, make significant changes, and have greater human involvement in the recommendation process.", man does this person know how many videos and how many users YouTube has? They cannot use anything except an algorithm to recommend videos. They cannot use anything except an algorithm to detect videos inappropriate for children. It seems YouTube is working on this, and this opinion seems like a ill thought out fluff piece to enrage readers and sell this persons book.

>>strike+jh
The total number of videos really doesn't matter, it is the total number of creators, which at least this site claims is a total of 50m for all time: https://mediakix.com/blog/youtuber-statistics-content-creato... (first result I found)

Just start banning certain creators from showing up in recommendations if their content crosses the line. Not that hard if you are willing to do it.

>>gibrow+Ht
But how would that solve the problem that the article opened with? There is nothing wrong with the videos of children playing, the wrong part was recommending them to pedophiles

>>cortes+Jw
Feels like the article was about more than that one issue. It also discussed creators slicing in frames of mickey mouse and other methods of gaming the alg. Most of the responses here seem to be buying into Google's hype around number of hours or videos uploaded per second. I think that is a distraction that lets them off the hook for not managing the community they built.

Every algorithm is an editorial decision.