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When that's your incentive

The YouTube Effect

When that's your incentive and you don't have liabilityfor the content on your system, it...

The YouTube Effect • 2023

When that's your incentive and you don't have liability
for the content on your system, it leads to some very
perverse incentives, such as building machine
learning systems and algorithms that attempt to capture people's attention,
addict them to content and keep them on your site, so that you can show them
more advertising, because that's how
you make your money

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When that's your incentive

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and you don't have liability for the content on your system,

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it leads to some very perverse incentives,

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such as building machine learning systems

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and algorithms that attempt

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to capture people's attention, addict them to content

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and keep them on your site,

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so that you can show them more advertising,

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because that's how you make your money.

Duration

27 seconds

Views

47

Timestamp in Movie

00:59:12

Uploaded

Apr 16, 2025

Genres

documentary, mystery, thriller

Production

XRM Media,Olive Hill Media,TIME Studios,Valhalla Entertainment,Trouper,Zipper Bros Films

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Movie Summary

In this eye-opening documentary, Alex Winter presents a thoughtful, troubling look at YouTube, a site with humble origins that has gone on to change how we experience the world.