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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: 3, Interesting) by NotSanguine on Wednesday April 17 2019, @06:16AM (4 children)

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Wednesday April 17 2019, @06:16AM (#830868) Homepage Journal

    The AI may not be perfect, but it could be more capable of finding correlations between different events than humans.

    Sure. There are correlations.
    1. The twin towers were buildings. Notre Dame is a building;
    2. The twin towers were world renowned. Notre Dame is world renowned;
    3. The twin towers were a symbol of American prominence. Notre Dame is a symbol of French prominence;
    4. The twin towers suffered great damage. Notre Dame suffered great damage;
    5. The twin towers were a huge tourist attraction. Notre Dame is a huge tourist attraction;
    6. The twin towers were a marvel of modern architecture. Notre Dame is a marvel of medieval architecture.

    I could go on, as there are many other correlations. Firstly, most correlations between the two have nothing to do with terrorism or extremists. Secondly, as you know (or should) correlation is *not* causation.

    If you assume that just because they are both famous buildings that were destroyed, they were both attacked by Muslim extremists, then you should also assume that these buildings were also attacked by Muslim extremists, right?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster [wikipedia.org]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel [wikipedia.org]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace [wikipedia.org]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tre_Kronor_(castle) [wikipedia.org]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Block#Great_Fire [wikipedia.org]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art,_Rio_de_Janeiro [wikipedia.org]

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    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @09:40AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @09:40AM (#830938)

    I think it was triggered more by:
    7. Both were inside jobs

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @01:16PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @01:16PM (#830992)

      Both were inside jobs

      Your anal homoerotic fantasies aren't really relevant here.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @10:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @10:00AM (#830940)

    Also look at any image of Notre Dame from the front. What do you see? That's right: Two towers next to each other. With square layout, even.

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday April 18 2019, @08:54AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday April 18 2019, @08:54AM (#831556) Homepage
    Don't forget - Notre Dame has twin towers, the bell towers.
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