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Machine learning algorithms are now involved in the bulk of video removal from YouTube. ~80% of videos removed by YouTube in Q4 2017 were initially flagged by a computer, with many receiving less than 10 views before removal:
The vast majority of videos removed from YouTube toward the end of last year for violating the site's content guidelines had first been detected by machines instead of humans, the Google-owned company said on Monday. YouTube said it took down 8.28 million videos during the fourth quarter of 2017, and about 80 percent of those videos had initially been flagged by artificially intelligent computer systems.
The new data highlighted the significant role machines — not just users, government agencies and other organizations — are taking in policing the service as it faces increased scrutiny over the spread of conspiracy videos, fake news and violent content from extremist organizations. Those videos are sometimes promoted by YouTube's recommendation system and unknowingly financed by advertisers, whose ads are placed next to them through an automated system.
[...] Betting on improvements in artificial intelligence is a common Silicon Valley approach to dealing with problematic content; Facebook has also said it is counting on A.I. tools to detect fake accounts and fake news on its platform. But critics have warned against depending too heavily on computers to replace human judgment.
Also at Recode.
Previously:
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AI Beating Mechanical Turks at YouTube Censorship Accuracy
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @12:31AM (14 children)
It used to be just bullshit takedown notices. Then they gave big media companies the ability to claim (often falsely) that your video was theirs, then get money from ads in your video.
Next came censorship. In non-English, this often takes the form of Islamic standards. French is done in Algeria, where labor is cheap. That youtube shooter had a few videos in Farsi (spoken mainly in Iran) and Turkic (spoken mainly in Turkey), and thus you can see why her bland exercise video was given an 18+ rating: the moderators in those languages took a look at all her videos, then noticed something obscene, like the fact that she failed to cover her hair in the exercise video.
In the English version, stuff is generally expected to meet the standards of San Francisco and London. Some stuff that doesn't meet those standards is still tolerated, particularly if it is from a famous person like Trump, but the direction is clear. We're going left, whether we like it or not. Relatively unknown conservatives get their accounts locked or restricted in one way or another.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @01:47AM (3 children)
No. We are not going left in the U.S. on Youtube, it just looks like that based on the censorship of the far right. But the far left is getting censored too, just not in quite the same way. Indeed, as politics is more than one dimension, everyone is getting censored if they don't follow the real script. If you are anti-war: censored; anti-corporate: censored; anti-authoritarian: censored; etc. I could go on, but the people in power love pitting the right against the left in order to distract from what is really going on when bread and circuses are not enough.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday April 25 2018, @12:23PM (2 children)
Is that truly left wing? Sounds somewhat libertarian which basically morphed into alt/modern right.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Wednesday April 25 2018, @04:27PM
VLM, have you seriously absorbed that little of what people have been saying on here over the last few years?
Classical (civil) libertarian is anti-authoritarianism and also anti- big business when it steps on the liberty of the little guy. Because of the two axes of the political compass, that's not necessarily left nor right wing (a distraction as the GP noted). The media and politicians have hijacked the term "libertarian" to only apply to the right now but there are probably just as many lefties (if not more) that support those original libertarian ideals.
Apologies if my post is a bit abrupt btw. Been a rough day.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @05:32PM
The poster child in the U.S. for being many of those things is the hippy movement. I'm curious if you think those people would be classified as right-wing under the conventional spectrum.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @02:29AM (6 children)
Wait I thought the leftist agenda was all about censoring Christians while promoting Muslims?? I wish this site could keep the theories straight at least.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @03:02AM
Censorship of Farsi and Turkic is done almost exclusively by muslims.
The youtube shooter happened to be muslim, but she didn't always act it. She was thus censored. Essentially, they counted her as non-muslim (like a Christian or Jew or atheist or animist) because she was a female without her hair covered.
In other words: the "proper" muslims are promoted, while muslims who act like christians are censored.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @03:08PM (3 children)
It's a triumph of the elites that a hard move to the right can get vast swaths of the proles such as GP claiming it's a move to the left.
War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.
And all animals are equal,
but some animals are more equal than others.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Wednesday April 25 2018, @04:30PM
A septillion times THIS.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @04:34PM (1 child)
Both of those quotes come from books that were written to expose and mock the horrible injustice of communism, the ultimate far-left form of government.
That second one is really relevant to the SJWs, with people being "more equal" if they have more diversity points.
It is also really relevant to socialists like Bernie Sanders: He has 3 houses. His health care, as a member of the senate, got exempted from obamacare and is far better than what other government employees get. There is also that issue involving his wife and the finances of a college; laws seemingly don't apply to the "more equal" people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @06:14PM
George Orwell was a socialist. You were probably forced to read 1984 and Animal farm in school (and none of his other works), so have a child's comprehension at best.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Wednesday April 25 2018, @07:22PM
You speak as if Christians or Muslims were a cohesive unity, rather than a hodgepodge of differing world view and conflicting interpretations.
"I am a Cylon, so to is everyone else, we just are made by different factions."
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(Score: 2) by archfeld on Wednesday April 25 2018, @05:04AM (2 children)
3 left turns equals a right turn. I see your point, SF in general is very left leaning but the recent wave of censorship and shouting down free speech is disturbing for even a SF Bay Area native. I went to school at UC Berkeley, and there was always a huge variety of viewpoints from the young republicans, to the pastafarians party. The recent adoption of the so-called safe space doctrine is both highly disappointing, and scary to me. Censorship is the enemy of any so-called free society. I don't support people calling for violence but short of that everyone deserves the right to express their opinion whether it is popular, PC, or downright ignorant. Everyone deserves the right to religious freedom as long as they don't expect the rest of the world to adhere to their standards. That seems to be the sticking point in the Islamic world, they can't co-exist with everyone, or apparently anyone, and that is sad.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @05:50PM (1 child)
Your feeling when you discover there are OTHER dimensions to political compass (it's not just Left/Right).
If you keep trying to force everything onto your one dimensional line, you are just going to end up twisting the truth to fit your narrative, and very unsuccessfully.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Wednesday April 25 2018, @07:15PM
LOL, when I was 20 I knew for certain I knew everything. The older I get the more I know there is to know. At 50 I am pretty sure I know close to nothing, and that it is only going to get worse.
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