The hidden world beneath the shadows of YouTube's algorithm
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There's a secret side of YouTube, just beyond the guiding hand of the algorithm – and it’s nothing like what you know.

There’s a secret side of YouTube, just beyond the guiding hand of the algorithm – and it’s nothing like what you know. The vast majority of YouTube’s estimated 14.8 billion videos have almost never been seen. Until now.

  • aviationeastEnglish
    7•2 days ago

    I wonder how many of those videos were actually a human watching vs a machine calling the api, and how long did they watch for?