YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algorithmic Rabbit Holes
Neal Mohan discusses the streaming site’s recommendation engine, which has become a growing liability amid accusations that it steers users to increasingly extreme content.
Hasnain says:
Interesting take on algorithms and polarization.
Wish it had more data though.
"In the case of something like this, the challenges are harder because the line, as you can imagine, is sometimes blurry between what clearly might be hate speech versus what might be political speech that we might find distasteful and disagree with, but nonetheless is coming from, you know, candidates that are in elections and the like."
Posted on 2019-03-29T17:36:51+0000