Paying for YouTube has probably been the digital subscription with the single greatest return on a dozen dollars.
Content is uninterrupted without having to engage in the arms race. Music selection is great. Random movies are available.
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Content is uninterrupted without having to engage in the arms race. Music selection is great. Random movies are available.
My home page is on average 60% wasted/irrelevant.
I'm a little surprised they haven't added "AI" yet. They add some prompt "tell us what you like". I tried it the opposite "Do not show me cat videos!" and of course it was just keyword based and started showing me cat videos.
On the video front, my Japanese is pretty good. I watched one high level Japanese language video. Now my feed is full of beginner Japanese language videos. I'm pretty confident if I could ask some LLM "Don't show me beginning level Japanese videos" it could figure it out.
Same with Music. If I play any song from the 80s their shit algo will decide what I want is "hits of the 80s", not "more songs similar to the song I just played". Again, I feel like I could tell an LLM that. Play me songs by band X and songs similar to band X". "Play me songs that influenced band X" (LLM can reference interviews for that).