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Google Says AI Better Than Humans At Scrubbing Extremist YouTube Content (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Google has pledged to continue developing advanced programs using machine learning to combat the rise of extremist content, after it found that it was both faster and more accurate than humans in scrubbing illicit content from YouTube. The company is using machine learning along with human reviewers as part of a mutli-pronged approach to tackle the spread of extremist and controversial videos across YouTube, which also includes tougher standards for videos and the recruitment of more experts to flag content in need of review. A YouTube spokesperson said: "While these tools aren't perfect, and aren't right for every setting, in many cases our systems have proven more accurate than humans at flagging videos that need to be removed. Our initial use of machine learning has more than doubled both the number of videos we've removed for violent extremism, as well as the rate at which we've taken this kind of content down. Over 75% of the videos we've removed for violent extremism over the past month were taken down before receiving a single human flag."
Pewdiepie is alt-right? The advertisers pulled their ads because they were shamed into doing it by a smear campaign orchestrated against centrists by authoritarian, puritanical leftist bullies.
4chan is training their AI. People on the /pol board have been running a mass false-flagging campaign lately, getting videos and channels they don't like taken down. When the victims appeal or complain they just get a robot "reviewing" the strike and ultimately have to resort to tweeting at YouTube staff to have any chance of getting things resolved.
YouTube's content filtering is out of control, anti-free speech, kafkaesque and devoid of any human oversight to catch errors.
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