To your last point, I just know that quite a few little boys like Sonic the Hedgehog, like my cousin's sons. I saw with horror as one was on Youtube the Sonic furry fanart stuff that gets pushed on him in the recommendations.
I'm sure he watched some of it to start the cascade of recommendations, but the first video was almost certainly a YouTube recommendation only because he watched normal Sonic content, not degenerate furry crap.
That's probably a weakness in the algorithm. YouTube has never really been safe for children to just go about browsing. You need some serious curation if you want to actually display only child-friendly content that you can confirm isn't subversive or randomly spliced with crazy shit, or potentially some trippy as fuck algorithm nonsense.
If the algorithm is looking for videos with the same words, or associated popularity, or even just similar colors and shapes, it's not really a good algorithm for children.
To your last point, I just know that quite a few little boys like Sonic the Hedgehog, like my cousin's sons. I saw with horror as one was on Youtube the Sonic furry fanart stuff that gets pushed on him in the recommendations.
I'm sure he watched some of it to start the cascade of recommendations, but the first video was almost certainly a YouTube recommendation only because he watched normal Sonic content, not degenerate furry crap.
That's probably a weakness in the algorithm. YouTube has never really been safe for children to just go about browsing. You need some serious curation if you want to actually display only child-friendly content that you can confirm isn't subversive or randomly spliced with crazy shit, or potentially some trippy as fuck algorithm nonsense.
If the algorithm is looking for videos with the same words, or associated popularity, or even just similar colors and shapes, it's not really a good algorithm for children.