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Is the YouTube Algorithm Controlling Us? I Try to Find Out | WIRED
Do algorithms enhance our worst behaviors? How do algorithms influence our world views? Tech journalist Sinead Bovell talks with an ex-YouTube engineer, a former design ethicist from Google and an Oxford professor about the impact algorithms are having in our lives. Sources: ►► Listen to the Get WIRED podcast ►► Also, check out the free…
MRH , FRC
November 19, 2020 at 7:19 pm
As if your ip and geographic location don’t factor lmfao
Azoo Alharbi
November 19, 2020 at 7:21 pm
Answer is YES , to the left
Sarra Campbell
November 19, 2020 at 7:33 pm
The algorithm is based on so many different things, your searches, likes, watch time, even your gender, age, and also location of where you live. Of course it’s going to be biased and recommend things based on what it thinks you’ll want to watch. That’s the ultimate goal, to get more watch time and get you addicted. It works for both sides of the political parties. It can definitely be harmful too because of this, causing way too many conspiracies, fake news, and overall bad ideas to spread. But is that really the algorithms or YouTube’s fault, or is that our fault since we are the ones who watch it?
Twilight Gardens presentations
November 19, 2020 at 7:45 pm
What I saw is that if you dip even once into the right wing you get some crazy videos coming back and in such force that I expect this is a big part of American right wing radicalization
Britt Bergmeister
November 19, 2020 at 7:47 pm
More women in tech please!!! Love this video 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Brendan Rogers
November 19, 2020 at 7:48 pm
Is the YouTube algorithm BASED?
Twilight Gardens presentations
November 19, 2020 at 7:51 pm
Define echo chamber because an echo chamber that repeats the same lie can convince the masses of devastating things just because they are confident and poorly educated
Koolaidman
November 19, 2020 at 8:09 pm
Short answer yes ofc it is along with any other online website it’s called cookies
Padarabinda Palai
November 19, 2020 at 8:13 pm
These guys were in the Social Dilemma !!!
*insert the Leonardo di Caprio” meme
ArnoldsK
November 19, 2020 at 8:28 pm
Hey, she’s adorable
J. Hoyos
November 19, 2020 at 8:40 pm
Share share share… @Algorithm do your job.
Books Rebound
November 19, 2020 at 8:45 pm
Lmao why’d you have to read Tristan like that and call him a “nice guy”… Yikes
Guess My Name
November 19, 2020 at 9:31 pm
🎵Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with you🎶
EricMichaelLP
November 19, 2020 at 9:32 pm
Smash mouth all star was there. Biased.
Anym
November 19, 2020 at 9:41 pm
Ofc the algorithm is biased. Biased towards the person’s already existing beliefs because that’s how they make money
LeeAxon
November 19, 2020 at 9:49 pm
I clicked on this video for the girl.
Bernard N
November 19, 2020 at 9:54 pm
This is similar to that fine line between something that is statistical vs something that is racist.
For Fun
November 19, 2020 at 10:08 pm
Who else clicked the vid just to see the girl
Kris Madas
November 19, 2020 at 10:29 pm
IDK… I feel like the expected behavior after I specifically search for, watch, and then like a video would be the website showing more videos like that. I mean who actually wants “neutrality” in these things? If YouTube was still showing me the default homepage and recommended videos after they’ve known my tastes for a decade, that’d be horrible for both their business and my enjoyment of the site.
IMO, people like the idea of unbias tech and digital privacy in theory but not in practice.
God Left
November 19, 2020 at 10:48 pm
Tristan, right… Nice try Linus
Jyoti Prakash
November 19, 2020 at 10:52 pm
Clickbait
cut
November 19, 2020 at 11:02 pm
I enjoy that it tries to suggest things I might watch. I don’t a “My little pony” suggestion.. I’d rather get 800 bhp Porsche suggestion or demolition of huge skyscraper… or the latest Musti1 vid.. not how to apply bronzer. 🙂
Joe Sigl
November 19, 2020 at 11:05 pm
I have never felt the YouTube algorithm really cares about me.
Roddick Betelguese
November 19, 2020 at 11:12 pm
You best believe YouTube algorithms going to recommend this video after 2 or 3 years later
Scene Kyle
November 19, 2020 at 11:41 pm
Rightwing voices aren’t allowed online.
Daniel Delarosa
November 20, 2020 at 4:19 am
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Ana Rodriguez
November 20, 2020 at 5:11 am
Me watching this and clicking like and see what comes up for recommendations 😂
Mr. E
November 20, 2020 at 5:19 am
where does Wired fall in the categorys?
1
November 20, 2020 at 5:21 am
The fact that they didn’t recognize things like destiny and the lincoln project worries me
1
November 20, 2020 at 5:22 am
The alt-right rabbit hole is a real threat.
Bendirval
November 20, 2020 at 5:23 am
Algorithm bias toward what people already believe is an expected and normal outcome in this type of media. The more troubling thing is when the higher-ups at YouTube decide to fight that problem by damping down those opinions and beliefs they don’t personally have (voter fraud, for example). The result is that certain opinions become amplified and others get censored based on what an insular group of people (youtube employees) wants. That’s a far more troubling problem.
Ally Walka
November 20, 2020 at 5:24 am
Is Algorithm the foetus stage of Skynet?
Edwin Babu
November 20, 2020 at 5:33 am
Whe else saw Dreams vid
Harshil Patel
November 20, 2020 at 6:25 am
Yeh they will pay you…!!!! 🤔🤔🤔
ThE DuCk
November 20, 2020 at 6:27 am
If you have a weak moment and click on a stupid video , YT thinks all you want are stupid videos – until you die — arrruugh !
Thought Criminal
November 20, 2020 at 7:49 am
YouTube is dividing America. There’s your proof.
Adrian Duran
November 20, 2020 at 8:20 am
so everyone gets that lo-fi hip hop channel, it’s not just me
Buzzer
November 20, 2020 at 9:36 am
This is news? Everything knows this!
Google User
November 20, 2020 at 9:37 am
Wow which one of you is plagiarizing Joe Rohan’s perspective?
Google User
November 20, 2020 at 9:40 am
Do yourself a favor and go watch joe rogan experience episode 1588
K-DRAMA GOODMORNING SEOUL
November 20, 2020 at 9:46 am
It rained a lot yesterday in Seoul, Korea. The cold winter began with the cold wind blowing. I hope health is always with you. Thank you. ^O^
Neelanjana Anne
November 20, 2020 at 11:12 am
Anyone here after watching that documentary on Netflix – The Social Dilemma ….
Roy Godiksen
November 20, 2020 at 11:44 am
Yes, they are. Any fool can see that.
Renee Peters
November 20, 2020 at 12:32 pm
So interesting to see the 3 controls side by side.
Jose Mercado Dianela
November 20, 2020 at 12:33 pm
I see the 109y old veteran smoking all the time, I mean at least once a week.
Honey BBQ Sauce
November 21, 2020 at 10:06 pm
Yep, I watched it when it was brand new and liked it, seen it trending ever since. It’s always there. Also that documentary : Carts of Darkness I’ve seen that video trending for about 5 years in my suggestions even after already watching it and after moving to a different location and internet provider.
joedd215
November 20, 2020 at 3:47 pm
Should maybe use a VPN to scramble each computer’s IP to ensure each machine/user is not somehow lumped together
Mikey Forrester
November 20, 2020 at 3:49 pm
youtube also takes ip into account
Brian D'Souza
November 20, 2020 at 4:12 pm
Video wasn’t helpful! So what’s the conclusion for your title? I saw these 2 young guys in “The Social Dilemma”. Do check out that movie people.
w0rld d
November 20, 2020 at 6:58 pm
Dear lord, 5 minutes of this video is just her rattling off words. Where is the expert input!? – needed a tougher editor. This woman is not interesting…
MadeOnEarth
November 20, 2020 at 8:22 pm
Comments a censored as well, try commenting about taxation and the free market.
Nomon Munir
November 21, 2020 at 2:15 am
Oh I know the algorithms are controlling the content I’m watching . Don’t bother trying. Sometimes I rely on the algorithm to help me find vids to watch
Wanda Wyatt
November 21, 2020 at 3:44 am
Great segment!
Jennifer La Plante Verte
November 21, 2020 at 4:22 am
Hey that’s how I messed up my parent’s algorithm because they were watching conspiracy videos 👍
Avs Schmidt
November 21, 2020 at 7:59 am
She is like Megan Fox with brains.. Scary.. 🤣
Jyoti Singh
November 21, 2020 at 9:40 am
Ofc Algorithm controls our taste , emotions and goals.
Devin Gunther
November 21, 2020 at 3:43 pm
You did not take into account that their all sharing the same IP Address. Your test is flawed not controlled.
Honey BBQ Sauce
November 21, 2020 at 10:05 pm
Indeed.
john smith
November 21, 2020 at 4:33 pm
Imagine using MSNBC as the left wing concept lmao
Aaron Lewis
November 21, 2020 at 6:25 pm
YouTube recommended me this video. But i already knew to be conscious about what i search. Maybe the algorithm already knows this? Have i fallen down a “rabbit hole “?
sunnyweather
November 21, 2020 at 7:55 pm
6:32
A lot of drones were used here to create images in the sky. With this number, these drones must be coordinated autonomously using software. Such drones were often spotted in the night sky with lighting to simulate a UFO / UAP for the population. Such swarms of drones are also used as weapons by the military and can be equipped with numerous weapons / sensors / devices. These drones fly + coordinate via an artificial intelligence.
B W
November 22, 2020 at 12:34 am
ALGORITHM IS CONTROLLING THE WORLD! BELIEVE IT! AND IT’S BAD!
William Crosswhite
November 22, 2020 at 12:53 am
The IP can also make a difference.
William Crosswhite
November 22, 2020 at 12:59 am
The problem with the algorithm is it keeps enforcing the person’s beliefs and can cause them to be radicalized.
TONIGHT WE RIDE
November 22, 2020 at 2:22 am
Use brave browser
TONIGHT WE RIDE
November 22, 2020 at 2:23 am
Also get a de-mainstream app on your browser
Noan YoBiseniss
November 22, 2020 at 5:37 am
Worse for sure, Youtube force feeds channels I do not want to see at all.
and blocking them is a full time job.
Lps Lovebird
November 22, 2020 at 7:26 am
#BattleDamage
Can you do Apple iPhone Vs Samsung Vs Google Pixel Vs Sony Xperia Vs Motorola Vs LG Vs ZTE Vs Huawei?
That’s A lot….
Gagan Sagar
November 22, 2020 at 2:07 pm
Yes ofcourse
Pranav Kakkar
November 22, 2020 at 4:50 pm
So what’s the solution???
Sam Jones
November 22, 2020 at 8:35 pm
Even if you didn’t vote; you voted then…
Kelsey Bradley
November 22, 2020 at 8:35 pm
Even if you didn’t vote; you voted then…
Wendifur
November 22, 2020 at 9:35 pm
The algorithm is a computer. It doesn’t have any bias. It doesn’t care what people think nor about what society thinks. It’s giving you videos based on your searches. It’s your own fault for being so close minded and not looking up both sides of whatever argument is going on. People need to stop blaming things like social media and start pointing the finger at themselves and others.
Will Charles
November 22, 2020 at 9:58 pm
I think about this all the time, and would love what Guillaume is talking about. I’m not at all interested in YouTube premium, but I would pay to get a control panel for my algorithm. Instead I opt to use the “not interested” feature, but I find it doesn’t retain and predict in the long term based off my “not interested” — it just affects the one session. I think of every video I watch as a coordinate on a map, and the algorithm is trying to suggest new “locations” to visit; instead of leading me me to new vistas, however, it tries to keep me in my stomping ground. I can use multiple searches to expand my horizon, but YT doesn’t keep in mind my old interests so much as it thinks I’m in a totally new phase. If I could just type in what topics I like and see what other people are up to in those realms, we wouldn’t even need an algorithm; look at reddit.
Talin
November 22, 2020 at 11:49 pm
I feel like everyone or most people sort of know that YT suggests vids that are similar to ones we’ve watched before…I suppose the bit about how it supposedly recommends more extreme cases because that gets more views was interesting 😅
Richard Chatfield
November 23, 2020 at 12:00 am
Repeat, using someone elses algorithm as an excuse to people who are already woke. 🧐
Rusty Spotted Cat
November 23, 2020 at 12:52 am
Yes … yes … exactly … yesterday news.
Richard S
November 23, 2020 at 6:29 am
Epstein didnt kill himself is a conspiracy theory
F r e e A s s a n g e
November 23, 2020 at 5:55 pm
Which is a true, factual conspiracy theory.
Not all conspiracy theories are inaccurate.
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mjl0611
November 23, 2020 at 6:02 pm
What a beautiful woman
SilverSlayer23
November 23, 2020 at 8:08 pm
Honestly, MSNB and ABC News are pretty right-wing. Now do one for independent media vs “authoritative” media.
Him
November 23, 2020 at 10:58 pm
A WOMAN that is good looking *AND* seems fairly normal!?!? Wtf. Finally, about time.
Penny Trui
November 26, 2020 at 5:09 am
When youtube recommends this video to you
Me:🔴👄🔴
Augustin Jean Daniel
November 26, 2020 at 3:02 pm
“The social dilemma” Netflix movie documentary deal with this concept in a much broader, deeper way.
Nekminute
November 26, 2020 at 7:51 pm
We’ve all been on the weird side of youtube…
Joseph S
November 27, 2020 at 9:13 pm
The answer is Yes.
specialtramp
November 27, 2020 at 10:50 pm
Turned off my history a couple of years ago. Basically just watch my subbed channels and occasionally check trending. Yeah my views aren’t being “challenged” by my YT viewing – but I’m not watching news, I’m watching tech channels, music and dance videos, physics and science.
Zippy Doo
November 29, 2020 at 9:35 pm
ABC news is somewhere in the middle? Really?
Ian Guttinger
November 30, 2020 at 6:04 am
Lmao the fact this has 40k views is proof
Student Zachary South
November 30, 2020 at 8:33 pm
I’m worried that when I comment this someone will say I’m wrong…..
Hobonickel
November 30, 2020 at 11:25 pm
feedback loops are an essential basis for creating more data and training not only human neural links making us conscious but also to train super artificial intelligent neural networks to make artificial consciousness … MORE DATA at FASTER speeds is the ultimate goal of elite tech atm
I’ve been in a few rabbit holes myself
except STARLINK is not a rabbit hole it’s a rabbit cloud
John Ohkuma Thiel
December 1, 2020 at 4:11 am
These were highly predictable results, and therefore didn’t provide any valuable information. Even if someone only recently started using an app such as YouTube, it’s easy to see that if you search, view, and like content with any kind of leaning, including hobbies or personal routines, they’re going to get both suggested content and targeted marketing related to that. So this is a waste of time to watch all the way through.
We only wish this is how algorithms actually worked. For example, why did yoga come up in each of your feeds? If you get an ad for tampons, how is that related to you being left, right, or moderate? Obviously there’s more going on than what you view, like, and comment on.
More important is how algorithms target based on other factors, like your tracked location and ‘assumed’ language preferences versus what you say in your profiles on social media. For a long time I was getting both content and marketing targeting me for another nationality and language other than the ones I specified, and it was completely irrelevant to content I actually viewed and liked. Honestly, it was infuriating, so I finally had to get a VPN, keep it on all the time, and stop using or allowing anything to track my location so that I would no longer be on the list as ‘lovin’ it’ on another continent just because I’ve been to that country and walked past one of their restaurants more than once.
These algorithms aren’t clever. They’re not doing what they’re intended to do. They’re obnoxious.
Algorithms should go by profile content, not tracking and targeting.
Xolin11
December 1, 2020 at 7:20 am
idk why she uses a video of her looking at a laptop camera instead of using the video _on_ the laptop camera like the people she’s talking to
E M
December 2, 2020 at 1:17 am
You forgot the fact that the computers are listening what you say
C
December 2, 2020 at 2:30 pm
She is absolutely gorgeous.
Pete Pester
December 2, 2020 at 6:31 pm
YouTube have just deleted one of my accounts because I commented that certain video makers were just here to profit by stiring up emotion over Brexit, just here for the money 💰💰💰💰
Gavin Harris
December 3, 2020 at 6:56 am
We need more videos like this
Kaye Li Taylor
December 4, 2020 at 12:10 am
This is sooooooo informative! We need a Series – Give Sinead a series WIRED!
Clark Magnuson
December 7, 2020 at 6:43 am
youtube recommended this video
Kide 2308_tamvan
December 9, 2020 at 3:09 am
Short Answer: “ABSOLUTELY.”
Long answer : This video.
Delta Sly
December 9, 2020 at 8:45 pm
I unsubscribed to a bunch of channels yesterday. My personal youtube algorithm is trying to make me watch channels I used to watch, but now unsubscribed too.
FPS king
December 11, 2020 at 11:28 am
Social dilemma
F1lpS1d3 Clickxz
December 11, 2020 at 9:04 pm
Well I get ur videos and I love them I’m not even subbed with us dangoured
DoraDora
December 12, 2020 at 9:34 am
EXPOSING YOUTUBE ON YOUTUBE………..
“WIRED”
thej swaroop
December 12, 2020 at 9:38 pm
How many of you were suggested this?
For me I am not….
Richard Bicycle
December 14, 2020 at 4:40 am
this would be more accurate if youtube didn’t delete videos and suspend accounts with alternate viewpoints on the basis of “misinformation”
paulo felipe b braga
December 24, 2020 at 1:43 pm
Why is the title in the interrogative form?
doug ridgway
December 27, 2020 at 2:48 am
I switch it up on purpose; As weird as that sounds. I can think what is more important is the pool of algorithms.
relic inn
December 31, 2020 at 11:59 am
The new word for programming
Torin Jones
January 7, 2021 at 7:55 pm
Software engineer – computer scientist – french
Albert Jackinson
January 10, 2021 at 12:41 am
Even just four and a half minutes in, this is absolutely fascinating.