Like everything on The Verge, it would not surprise me. Like the situation of Chinese workers assembling Prada bags in Tuscany, there are incentives on both sides. google street view maps

youtube also uses browser fingerprinting and ip address for recommendations, it doesn't seem they included this in their experiment, so each walk would be influenced by previous walks. i find the autoplay on youtube combined with the deep learning for recommendations to be an odd combination...the ai is basically reinforcing itself if the user doesn't do anything. you get a situation where the user can walk away from the computer and the AI assumes the user liked all these videos it played. soundcloud downloader