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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @03:48PM
i didnt feel anything. maybe it is because i am not religious, and that i am actually jaded and believe that where there is a crisis, the corrupt will be the first to show up with offers to help for a profit.
its a shame, but i have no emotional connection to it. i am not even sure what its for besides being impressive architecture that is old and is why its a shame it burned. cool looking place, amazing it was built, but no feeling. i guess i just see it as a world wonder for civilization, like all the others i have no connection to.
its also a shame that the types of trees that were holding the roofs up do not exist anymore because of the lack of stewardship of the earth and stuff. i guess plastic can be used; 850 years from today people will wonder why we wasted the oil, too, just like how we cut down the trees and then didnt let replacements grow back.