DAE get recommended a video on how to fix a spaceship engine when you just looked up a blender recipe?

I was watching basic smoothie tutorials on YouTube last Tuesday. Then the algorithm hit me with a 45-minute deep dive on repairing a Saturn V rocket's fuel pump. I just clicked 'not interested' and went back to my strawberry banana situation. Has anyone else had the algorithm yank them into a completely wrong universe like that?

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tessa_kim36d ago

That algorithm thing is wild. I read somewhere that YouTube's AI actually groups people by watching habits and sometimes it's just way off. One minute you're in smoothie territory, next thing you know it's throwing rocket science at you like you asked for it. Blame the weird data connections, like maybe the person who made the blender tutorial also watches space stuff. Mine did the same thing with car repair videos after I watched one video on how to clean a coffee maker.

rubyj116d ago

I actually saw a breakdown of how YouTube's recommendation system works in a tech article. It doesn't really group people by "watching habits" the way you described. It's more about individual video metadata and session timing. So if you watch a blender tutorial, the algorithm spots keywords like "kitchen gadget" or "diy appliance repair" and sometimes it goes on a TOO BROAD tangent. The car repair video after a coffee maker thing is the same glitch. Both involve "maintenance" and "household items" so the machine just smashes them together. It's actually a known FLAW with their AI, not a data group thing.