>>99274217Oh yeah. The entire children's sphere became an igneous racket. Whole companies sprang dedicated to exploiting Youtube's AI and advertisers. One such scheme involved using another AI to throw together a bunch of mocap super heroes into inexplicable stories, often featuring keywords that were popular thanks to the abuse. Stuff like "buried alive" worked well, because only the kid's sphere seemed to used "buried alive" a lot and the Youtube AI could figure that out. It came to believe "buried alive" meant this show is for kids.
Hundreds of channels would release nearly identical videos with similar tags, using similar keywords, and Youtube would promote them all against each other. The most important thread was that they be about pre-existing characters, so that the AI would get tripped into thinking the videos were related to Spiderman, or Elsa, or Peppa Pig, or whatever. Then, once the kids fell into the web, there was so much more "buried alive" content that the AI never let the kids leave it.
That's what AI does when it's not self-aware and it's told to match metadata to ad performance. It finds the people who are doing that and it helps their videos rise to the top. Nothing more, nothing less. The fear is when the AI is told to make its own decisions and make the most possible money this quarter, and it realizes a loophole that would make a fortune this quarter, but crash the whole economy next quarter, and on a mass scale kills us all.
