fam in ~18 hours we'll have 157 million casts with embeddings, pray for me it doesn't crash overnight

There's a secret side of YouTube, just beyond the guiding hand of the algorithm–and it’s nothing like what you know.

The vast majority of YouTube's estimated 14.8 billion videos have almost never been seen. Until now.

My AI is using this technique: https://t.co/F5kdYw677d

The scraper tried more than 18 trillion potential URLs before it collected a big enough sample for real scientific analysis.

Among the findings: the research estimates the median YouTube video has been watched just 41 times mostly by machines.

Link: https://t.co/cPTmMLKBGL https://t.co/uI4DordFlw

Brian Roemmele

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https://x.com/brianroemmele/status/1898647583045869949?s=46&t=jXbE9FtOedI8BQTeVCix-g