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

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @02:38AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @02:38AM (#830795)

    Both events were Illuminati blood sacrifices according to this psychic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oB8CPN7hGeI [youtube.com]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @02:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @02:46AM (#830796)

    Dumbinati

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @03:00AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @03:00AM (#830799)

    Nostradumbass

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @03:13AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @03:13AM (#830807)

      Interesting 2:05.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @03:33AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @03:33AM (#830810)

    This shit always cracks me up.

    Are people really so totally in denial about the inherent, systemic behaviors of capitalism (as a system with actors that behave rationally--on an aggregate scale at least--who may even be exact copies of each other for the sake of argument, according to simple rules [and with the inherent randomness of luck]) that they have to invent this crap?

    Or that the phenomenon of "there is no money!" along with socialized risk and privatized profit could have led to a contractor cutting corners that resulted in a fire that would have been otherwise unremarkable, except that sometimes it happens to certain properties like Grenfell Tower or Notre-Dame here and thus for a fleeting moment our collective attention is drawn to it, before the MSM forgets about it and goes back to 24/7 broadcasts of the reality TV show that is our political system.

    I mean, thank goodness it wasn't a natural gas utility cutting corners that resulted in an overpressurized gas line causing explosions in homes, killing and injuring people, and resulting in entire neighborhoods in several cities needing to evacuate. Or thank goodness it wasn't water lines being corroded by polluted water and leeching lead into the water supply of entire cities, all in the name of cutting costs while maximizing profit!

    Is it really so hard to understand that while profits are soaring, costs are being cut causing disaster after disaster while a small elite becomes richer and obscenely richer, stealing not just some but most of the wealth created by the entire rest of the population? How on Earth can anybody possibly believe "there is no money!" with those objective cold hard numbers that tell no lies?

    <sarcasm>Either that, or maybe it's the lizard people and their mind control rays that cause people to invent crazy conspiracy theories to explain what should be obvious and does not even require a grand conspiracy.... But the lizard people are probably caused by the weather war being fought between the Knights Templar and the Mooooooooslems across the 8th dimension, from which only Buckaroo Banzai can save us!</sarcasm>

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @03:51AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @03:51AM (#830815)

      When a disaster happens in a capitalist country, its because capitalist cut corners. When it happens in a communist country, it is capitalist sabatoge. Got it.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @11:28AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @11:28AM (#830961)

        USSR had same problem. Small elite stealing the wealth produced by the vast majority of the population who had no control over the means of production.

        I suggest we get rid of the small elite and the shell games they play in attempt to justify stealing all of society's wealth with clever bullshit, whether capitalism or Stalinist bureaucracy or what have you.