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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
No, the wrong part was when the pedophiles made inappropriate comments on the videos.

>>unders+H41
If that's the problem, then gibrown's solution

>Just start banning certain creators from showing up in recommendations if their content crosses the line.

also won't help, because it's not the creators that have content crossing the line, it's the commenters.