The Making of a YouTube Radical
nytimes.com
The Making of a YouTube Radical
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#3I love the scrolling transition at the beginning of this article. It really feels like an excellent piece of internet art.
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#4I love the scrolling transition at the beginning of this article. It really feels like an excellent piece of internet art.
It's also a very misleading and dishonest journalism, as many of YouTubers displayed in the final stages have nothing to do with the alt-right.
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#5I love the scrolling transition at the beginning of this article. It really feels like an excellent piece of internet art.
It's also a very misleading and dishonest journalism, as many of YouTubers displayed in the final stages have nothing to do with the alt-right.
I read the article and it mentioned that in the past year YouTube started recommending videos from left-leaning creators.
"IN 2018, nearly four years after Mr. Cain had begun watching right-wing YouTube videos, a new kind of video began appearing in his recommendations.
These videos were made by left-wing creators, but they mimicked the aesthetics of right-wing YouTube, down to the combative titles and the mocking use of words like “triggered” and “snowflake.”
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#7> Google Brain’s researchers wondered if they could keep YouTube users engaged for longer by steering them into different parts of YouTube, rather than feeding their existing interests. And they began testing a new algorithm that incorporated a different type of A.I., called reinforcement learning.
> The new A.I., known as Reinforce, was a kind of long-term addiction machine. It was designed to maximize users’ engagement over time by predicting which recommendations would expand their tastes and get them to watch not just one more video but many more.
It saddens me that so many of our smartest engineers are working on stuff like this.
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#8This piece of "journalism" is very biased towards the left. I have noticed that the left has increasingly declared traditional right-wing values as "extremist" or "alt-right" to attempt to whittle down what being right-wing means.
An example of this is abortion. No matter how you feel about it, saying that abortion is murder and should be banned is now, in the NYT's opinion, "alt-right" and "extremist" even though about half of America believes so and this has always been a Right-wing value.
Not only this, but this type of article is why the Right calls NYT "fake news." Not necessarily "fake," but the bias is boldly visible. It doesn't help with media credibility - and then the Left wonders why the Right doesn't take newspapers seriously. For the record, I think "Fake news" is overused - but I do understand, reading this, why the Right loves bashing NYT.
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#10I love the scrolling transition at the beginning of this article. It really feels like an excellent piece of internet art.
It's also a very misleading and dishonest journalism, as many of YouTubers displayed in the final stages have nothing to do with the alt-right.
famous left wing youtubers are people like Hbomberguy (known for helping trans charities)
famous right wing youtubers are people like Prisonplanet (white genocide propaganda, Brexit)
there's no comparison between the two outside of rise in popularity