How TikTok and YouTube decide what you see next
Explore vs exploit: why your feed shows videos you never asked for
Sometimes your feed shows a video about something you never watch. It looks like a mistake. It is not. The feed takes a small risk on purpose.
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By the guess of the ranking, the bee video should have lost. It sits far from you on the map.
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Yet the recommender put it there on purpose. Look at what it really knows of you: one corner of the map. Everything else is a blank.
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