Do you remember hiw bad YouTube comments have been? And it's significantly better lately?
That happened due to ML.
Not everyone is out there to use ML for nefarious purpose. And there are multiple use cases for ML.
That happened due to ML.
Not everyone is out there to use ML for nefarious purpose. And there are multiple use cases for ML.
Yes
>And it's significantly better lately?
It's gotten worse and a few youtubers I follow have simply disabled it in recent time (less than 1 month ago was the most recent one)
Normal conversation on youtube is barely possible since the algorithm randomly decides to not notify me of responses anymore or removes entire comments from my view that other people reference and I'm left wondering what is going on.
The only good thing about youtube comments is that I can remove them easily with a plugin.
It's also interface. I've been notified of replies to comments, click the notification, and I'm not taken to the reply. This happens to me on mobile enough that I've basically just given up trying to engage for most things on youtube.
- "Like if you're watching in June 2018?" [2k upvotes]
- "Most underrated artist of our time" [5k upvotes]
- "Wow, mad respect for <artist>" (written by verified account by other artist trying to promote their own content)
[video has 28 dislikes]
7 people are morons!!!
9 people are sad they have no taste in music111
What is wrong with the 13 downvotes?
WHHHHHHHHYYYYYY don't 16 people have any taste?
Well it's obvious that 18 people don't have any taste.
21 downvotes can suck it!
22 people are morons!!!
WTF, 24 downvotes? There should be negative downvotes!
25 people are morons!!!
Well I see Hitler and his 26 closest friends have seen this video!
27 people are morons!!!
28 people hate don't appreciate art!!1When people say these sorts of things are bad I think it's because their expectations and understanding of a comments section are wrong.
Of course, it's a question of taste what comments should be more visible. If the community actually prefers reading the same stuff over and over again, then the current state is probably justified, and it's just a moronic community.
e.g. "I got a chance to see these guys live in October, and [insert band member here] is actually a really cool guy. Talked to him afterwards and shared [so and so interaction]"
e.g. "This song was actually inspired by [such and such random factoid]"
e.g. "This song reminds me of my mom"
The comments got much better after Youtube added user ratings. Hardly "ML". I'm guessing they added ML later, but I haven't noticed any difference, to be honest...
And by "much better" I mean they went from amoeba level to early multi-cellular organism :)
Everything is just my opinion, of course, they're probably following a bunch of metrics I don't have access to and which could prove that the ML effort was worth it.