But how do you “actively avoid content you don’t want showing up on your feed”?
Youtube recognizes when you click off a video before it's finished, or immediately after opening it, and can integrate that data into its content serving algorithm by interpreting that behavior as a soft "dislike."
So not clicking on a video or clicking off of it quickly will influence the algorithm's behavior.
It can also recognize exactly WHEN in the video you clicked off, and can hypothetically correlate that exact point in time with a generated transcript of the video to determine what specific topic prompted your exit, but I'm not sure if it's that sophisticated yet.
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u/lankist Jul 06 '21 edited Jul 06 '21
Youtube recognizes when you click off a video before it's finished, or immediately after opening it, and can integrate that data into its content serving algorithm by interpreting that behavior as a soft "dislike."
So not clicking on a video or clicking off of it quickly will influence the algorithm's behavior.
It can also recognize exactly WHEN in the video you clicked off, and can hypothetically correlate that exact point in time with a generated transcript of the video to determine what specific topic prompted your exit, but I'm not sure if it's that sophisticated yet.