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AI ‘Aggro-rithms’ target boys with harmful content within 60s
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If you don't like a video you should just swipe away because the algorithm is looking for engagement and even though disliking it is negative it is still engagement and it will cause YouTube to show that content to more people. It can use your dislike to determine if that video is good or not for people similar to you, so your dislike might change who it is suggested to, but it won't cause it to be suggested less. At least that is what I have heard, I don't know if that is actually true.
Of course they will try and figure out what demographics like which videos, that's not always a bad thing, some people are not interested in video game content, that doesn't mean it's bad, it's just a different demographic. They're going to use whatever signals they can find to figure out those clusters, if you don't engage but another demographic engages heavily they'll keep recommending it to them. Giving them less signal won't make it less popular, it will just give you worse recommendations.
If the goal is to prevent this harmful content from being recommended at all then I think it is important to just ignore it. I don't need to use youtube shorts and if it's going to be terrible then I'm just never going to interact with it anymore.
I don't think that will achieve the goal.