I made sure to remove cookies and not sign in so I think these are the base suggestions made by youtube.

  • Mereo
    504·
    2 years ago

    Because these machine learning algorithms only put out what they learn so that they can target the right videos to people. In this case, I think people were searching Youtube for these kinds of videos, so Youtube’s algorithm suggested them.

    • mrmanager@lemmy.today
      245·
      2 years ago

      Nah they want you to be shocked and start watching. Called engagement, makes money by upsetting peoples emotional state so they become nervous, unhappy, angry etc.

      • DreamButt@lemmy.world
        18·
        2 years ago

        That’s not antithetical to what the other person said. It is both true that the algorithm does what it think people like and also that bad things get high engagement. The issue is that bad things aren’t accounted for and filtered out appropriately