Media and search engines nowadays need a flag system and a filter for AI junk results

  • iheartneopets@lemm.eeEnglish
    67·
    2 days ago

    So tangential storytime: my husband recently discovered one of these channels (not sure if it’s this one or just a similar one), and specifically this goddamned song called “I glued my balls to my butthole again.” He will. Not. Stop. Playing it. He thinks it’s fucking hilarious, especially the more I roll my eyes.

    Anyway, yes these channels are a blight, something needs to be done about them, and if anyone needs a husband they can find mine on the curb blasting that song on a loop lmao

  • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
    38·
    2 days ago

    If you don’t like the titular hit 'i glued my balls to my butthole, again" , then fuck you

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    79·
    2 days ago

    Shit like this is why I don’t feel bad about my aggressive ad blocking on YouTube. If they don’t care to deprioritize garbage like this (or moderate really at all) then why should I sit through a 50 second ad to watch a 5 minute video?

  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    The same reason as why Spotify does it. Content that they don’t have to pay any royalty for to anyone. They can keep 100% of the ads money. In a few years we’ll find out all these accounts were just created by the platform themselves. Legally.

  • Korne127@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    You can just click on the three dots and on “Do not recommend” or Don’t recommend from this channel, then it will stop.

  • NutinButNetEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    YouTube desperately needs to fix the recommendations for music. It’s either recommending me the same music I already listen to and is irrelevant to what I’m currently playing or something irrelevant to my taste and the video being watched. Think watching an Ice Cube video but having recommendations for Megadeth and Alice In Chains and Adele on the side. And if it’s not something I’ve already watched/listened to, it’s still something totally unrelated.

    For the longest time, they kept recommending “Beck - Loser” to me on anything I would watch, regardless of genre. I’ve never listened to or searched for any of Beck’s music and I don’t know how that would be recommended to someone currently watching an Ice Cube music video…

    And the live performances…I don’t ever watch or listen to live performances. Yet YouTube always recommends it to me. Even having a whole section dedicated to “Live Music”. Never asked for this, never searched for it…I don’t care for Live performances. I want studio only.

    And what’s worse is that YouTube has a feature to tell it “Don’t recommend this video - because I watched it or don’t like it” or “don’t recommend this channel” EXCEPT for music! Why???

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      YouTube desperately needs to fix the recommendations for music.

      I mean, I guess if someone has a YouTube account, there’s nothing wrong with using YouTube as a music recommendations system, but it isn’t really the first thing I’d think of. I mean, music isn’t really what it was designed for.

      And YouTube doesn’t know what a user would listen to offline, so unless all their music-listening is from YouTube tracks…I’m not sure how representative the listening data would be of what a user would listen to.

      I don’t use them, because I don’t really want to hand them a profile of me, but if I wanted to get music recommendations, I’d probably use something like Audioscrobbler, which was designed for building a profile on someone’s music-listening habits and then handing them recommendations based on that.

      • NutinButNetEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        YouTube has a recommendation system already in place and it generally works for me except for music.

        I don’t use it as my main source of music, but it’s convenient at some times like putting on music on my Apple TV while I work or if I am on my computer and don’t have my offline music library available. Or if I want to see the music video because I like the video that goes with the music. I used to use it to find new artists based on my existing taste, but whenever they broke the search/suggestions is when that all stopped for me and now I just use it for the same music or if I found a new artist and want to quickly check out their music.

        There’s no reason for it to be this shitty. It seems intentional on their part. Maybe making money from paid spotlights under the guise of “recommendations”.

      • Squorlple@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Do note that this is in my “All” videos recommended feed, not just filtered for music

  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    I’m my case I can’t even play any videos. It just said content not available if I’m logged into my account.