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YouTube's AI Flags Notre-Dame Fire as 9/11 Conspiracy, Representative Says System Made ‘Wrong Call’

posted by martyb on Tuesday April 16 2019, @11:39PM   
from the Walks-like-a-duck^W-attack... dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Soon after a fire engulfed Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on Monday, news outlets began streaming live broadcasts on YouTube. Below several of the clips was an odd box of text: A snippet from Encyclopedia Britannica about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

YouTube, a division of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, introduced this text box feature last year to combat the spread of conspiracy theories, including those that question the 9/11 attacks. On Monday, YouTube’s software mistakenly labeled the plumes of smoke in Paris as footage from 2001, triggering the panel below the video.

“We are deeply saddened by the ongoing fire at the Notre-Dame cathedral,” said a YouTube spokesman. “These panels are triggered algorithmically and our systems sometimes make the wrong call. We are disabling these panels for live streams related to the fire.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-15/youtube-flags-notre-dame-fire-as-9-11-conspiracy-in-wrong-call

Who are the humans to say the AI was wrong on this one? It found a correlation between the two topics and made its decision. The exact reasons for its decision are inscrutable to the humans, they are just contradicting the AI based on preconceived bias or because they don't like the resulting discussion.

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Original Submission

• The (((conspirators))) are at it again The (((conspirators))) are at it again (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @01:01AM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @01:01AM (#830749)

  The fact that google made a tool to flag 'conspiracy theories' is proof of their (tribe's) complicity in many of the conspiracies. Google is acting like The Ministry Of Truth, checking other people's videos to make sure no ungood thoughts are being distributed.

  This is censorship, and it must end. They talk about China and its censorship, but the West is worse. They tell you you are free every 2 seconds because you are not. China makes no such claims of their citizens being free.

  Any free country with free people still left will take over and rule the world some day. Communist dictatorships will go down no matter what they call themselves. Freedom is natural. Communist dictatorship is not.

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• Re:The (((conspirators))) are at it again (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @03:41AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @03:41AM (#830813)

  The fact that google made a tool to flag 'conspiracy theories' is proof of their (tribe's) complicity in many of the conspiracies. Google is acting like The Ministry Of Truth, checking other people's videos to make sure no ungood thoughts are being distributed.

  You're missing 2 additional sets of parentheses there.

  This is the dot-coms' vaunted goodthink service, the one that Facebook and Google promised the Deep State would be there to purify American's thoughts from any disturbing or foreign information.

  Nice to see another AI failure.

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• Re:The (((conspirators))) are at it again (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @06:29AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @06:29AM (#830874)

  Aren't you late for a Bund [wikipedia.org] meeting or something?

  Shitstain.

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• Re:The (((conspirators))) are at it again (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @06:29AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @06:29AM (#830875)

  Aren't you late for a Bund [wikipedia.org] meeting or something?

  Shitstain.

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