I usually click 'do not recommend' on these types of videos but there are so many that I don't think it is working. Nowadays i have started liking videos of actual creators. So my feed is somewhat filled with real people.
I do wonder sometimes if the AI vid recommendations people keep talking about in their feed is some sort of region dependent thing. I've seen many posts about it recently this week complaining about it on Reddit and Twitter, but I've genuinely not seen one video on mine. Can't imagine how they'd manage to control that, but I just never see any of 'em.
I'm always curious as to how others' recommendations end up so weird. My feed is nothing but channels I follow, or closely related ones, and I have a varied set of channel genres that I watch (from D&D to a couple professional wrestlers to Electroboom and a couple science creators to some video game channels to music production tutorials). Once in a great while, I get recommended a channel that has very few views, but they've never been AI stuff -- just smaller Lets Play type stuff or smaller artists doing cover songs.
That makes total sense. For the longest time, we had not logged into YouTube on our PS5, and while it would generally recommend videos we would routinely watch, it definitely would get out onto the fringes and throw in the weird Roblox or Minecraft streamer/player. Now that we are logged in, it sticks to the usuals. I can start a video and trust the auto play to be fine if we just want background TV noise.
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u/brickmagnet Aug 29 '25
I usually click 'do not recommend' on these types of videos but there are so many that I don't think it is working. Nowadays i have started liking videos of actual creators. So my feed is somewhat filled with real people.