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.”
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.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @12:18AM (12 children)
That's where the 9/11 conspirators came from in 2001, and also the four Muslims with a drone who were arrested by French police yesterday.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @12:22AM (2 children)
The worst part is the French cover-up. They ruled out terrorism before an investigation even started. How much does Macron need the votes of slum-dwelling Muslims?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @12:31AM (1 child)
Moslems! If we call them Moslems, which is their true name [wikipedia.org], and totally not just something that could possibly only be of interest to linguists, we will gain power over them!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @10:05AM
Ah, but their True Name is Mussulman. Proof: It's no longer used, and now they are gaining power.
Let's start using that word again, and they'll be defeated! :-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @12:25AM
Ah damn, beat me to it. I was going to suggest that Google had merely crawled the comments on the last article Soylent posted about the fire.
But, if it was not a 9/11 jet beams can't melt steel fuel conspiracy theory, maybe it was a 7/11 [soylentnews.org] conspiracy! The Mooooooooooslems are coming for our slurpees and roller grill hot dogs!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @12:46AM (5 children)
Off-topic, I know, but the only drones related to Notre Dame fire were those used by the firefighters [qz.com]
a captured image [twitter.com]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 17 2019, @01:01AM (3 children)
Chinese drones at the Notre Dame fire? Great - another China conspiracy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @01:19AM (2 children)
Chinese Moslems are also known as Uighurs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @01:35AM
Weegers?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @04:36AM
And the proper way to greet one is: "What up, my Uighur"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @03:29PM
Look, we all know a drone flew into the Notre Dame which resulted in this fire. The question is: who piloted it?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @12:46AM (1 child)
The 9/11 conspirators came from Jerusalem, home of the khazar jews.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @06:46AM
Since when is Jerusalem in Saudi Arabia?