YouTube: 'We don't take you down the rabbit hole'
Found on BBC News on Friday, 19 July 2019
YouTube has defended its video recommendation algorithms, amid suggestions that the technology serves up increasingly extreme videos.
YouTube uses algorithms to recommend more videos for you to watch. These video suggestions appear in the app, down the side of the website and also show up when you get to the end of a video.
"It's what's great about YouTube. It is what brings you from one small area and actually expands your horizon and does the opposite of taking you down the rabbit hole," he says.
Their algorithms are pretty useless. Over and over you get recommended the same videos, even if they have absolutely nothing to do with what you are currently watching; and even if they are somewhat related, you're as far away from your original theme as possible. If there is anything that's completely useless and flawed at Youtube, it's the recommendations.