I almost never watch “shorts” but my suggestions for it seem to have an…uhhh…adult theme. I don’t watch any such thing with YouTube. Does everyone see garbage like this?

  • Z4rK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    7 months ago

    Well that’s just not how recommendation algorithms work. A part of it will be content based, directly related to what the user can be associated with.

    However, the largest part is collaboration based filtering of content. That means, our user is put in a group based on his other preferences, let’s assume nerdy tech stuff, and then is shown content that he has not liked yet but his group of peers has, meaning he could probably like it too.

    In other words - he’s not the one in fault here, YOU are (you pretty much have to be nerdy tech folks to be here).

    Please, could everyone here stop clicking on this stuff so that OP don’t have to be associated with your filthy behavior, thank you.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
      72·
      7 months ago

      that’s just not how recommendation algorithms work

      I didn’t say anything about how they work – only that it shows you stuff it thinks you will like. Which is basically what you said.

      However, the largest part is collaboration based filtering of content. That means, our user is put in a group based on his other preferences, let’s assume nerdy tech stuff, and then is shown content that he has not liked yet but his group of peers has, meaning he could probably like it too.

      Yes, based on other user patterns and how it categorizes him, it thinks he could probably like soft core porn too. That is, in fact, how it works. Glad we agree.

      In other words - he’s not the one in fault here, YOU are

      Please, could everyone here stop clicking on this stuff so that OP don’t have to be associated with your filthy behavior, thank you.

      So it’s perfectly realistic that everyone could be clicking on soft core porn to feed the algorithm these ideas, in contrast to OP, who couldn’t possibly be clicking on it? You’ve decided they’re the one and only person who definitely isn’t doing that when clearly someone is?

      How could you write this hostile and condescending message when I actually made a specific point to highlight the exact point you’re making (“It’s not to say you’re watching lots of soft core porn”) in my message? If a little more succinctly. I wasn’t blaming OP in any way, just explaining (just as you did) that the algorithm based on his viewing patterns is what decides what to show him.

      • Z4rK@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        7 months ago

        I had hoped that my last sentence showed my post was clearly in jest. The factual information was just needed to set up the joke. Neither hostility nor condescension was applied.

        In fact, the avid reader might catch that I have implied myself in the group of people causing OP’s annoying trouble with light-clothed females since I too am here - presumably a tech nerd like OP and meddling with the algorithms affecting him by clicking on unsavory content.