YouTube's ContentID system blocks videos alleged to infringe on copyright. Lately it has been coming down on a great many highly visible, legitimate videos. YouTube is apparently taking its time in resolving the problem.
Several popular YouTube accounts, including those belonging to 'MIT OpenCourseWare' and the 'Blender Foundation,' have had all their videos blocked. People who try to access the videos are informed that they are not available in their country, suggesting that YouTube's piracy filters have been triggered. It's unclear, however, who or what is to blame.
Source TorrentFreak : YouTube's Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More (Updated)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @11:28PM (1 child)
My wild guess is that someone who doesn't know how neural network works and on what case it should be used, trained it on some sample and decided to apply it.
But anyway, I find the situation highly amusing.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @11:36PM
Indeed, one might say the NN was trained to take a wild guess.