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YouTube's Search Autofill Surfaced Disturbing Child Sex Results (buzzfeed.com)
Several users are reporting that they found YouTube autocompleting search queries starting with 'how to have' with disturbing suggestions, including 's*x with your kids' over the weekend. From a report: A YouTube spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that the matter is still under investigation. "Earlier today our teams were alerted to this awful autocomplete result and we worked to quickly remove it," the company said. "We are investigating this matter to determine what was behind the appearance of this autocompletion." We tried the same query on YouTube less than an hour before publication of this story, and we found "how to have s*x in school," and "how to have s*x with kids" were still surfacing in the results.
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People want what they want. Kids like sex too.
Try to search Youtube for "Kunt and the Gang Sexy Kids" and you won't find his duet with Jimmy Saville's ghost.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
My impression was that your previous searches would influence your autocompletes. I don't get the same results, mine are quite innocuous.
That being the case, I have to wonder about the people reporting this.
Or are we really having a large group of pedos entering obvious search terms into youtube where sexual material (or even nipples) is usually erased within minutes?
Someone gamed the Youtube search engine to generate a story. Nothing to see here, move along.
Turn off the "personalized search results" you pervert!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Well, at least it's s*x and not sex.
Sucks. Try looking for horse porn and all you get is dudes jacking off on My Little Pony toys. Disgusting!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
When a search engine proposes that phrase after having type only "How to have", it is quite disturbing. Dunno why you're brushing it off. Especially considering the many other "How to have" options :
"How to have a merry christmas"
"How to have a good first date"
"How to have a successful job interview"
"How to have a great life"
"How to have Baron_Yam arrested for Pedo apology"
Obviously, Youtube and Google have come to rely way too much on "The Algorythm", and as many have pointed out, they are doing such a great job demonitizing and banning conservative voices, maybe they should apply that same effort to their massive Youtube Kid's problem, and this latest string of barely disguised pedophilia.
"Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
Everyone has kids knows that the answer in how to have sex with kids is to call Grandma or a babysitter for the evening, to to a restaurant with your spouse and then go straight in a motel or if you feel fancy, search a quiet spot, park there and put newspapers on the car's windows.
Hmm... so I guess even racists have become more politically correct. The autocomplete results for "how to lynch" do of course include "a black person" but not "a ni....".
Great. The system works. Yeah, they still wanna hang them, but at least it's not offensive!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Well, I'm sure now it's going to be a top search query, since thousands of people will read the article and go try it out to see if anything comes up.
Whats next, someone complaining that youtube's arrow looks like the head of a penis?
Everyone has kids knows that the answer in how to have sex with kids is to call Grandma or a babysitter for the evening, to to a restaurant with your spouse and then go straight in a motel or if you feel fancy, search a quiet spot, park there and put newspapers on the car's windows.
Exactly. It doesn't surprise me that "how to have sex with kids" and "how to have sex kids" top the list especially during a holiday weekend. How the "your" got inserted is a slight mystery but it's possible that either people are typing it that way or google is somehow inserting the your for some reason.
I wonder what it says about my view of the world compared to yours that I went straight to the "must be about sex predators" and you saw the innocent alternative.
BTW - letting the kids play video games or watch a movie works just fine... with a privacy-lock doorknob or a barrel bolt on the master bedroom door just in case.
Link?
Is there a reason that the autocomplete should ever ever ever ever autocomplete "sex" at all? How complicated is this?
You wouldn't finish your wife's sentences in public that way either. This isn't advanced AI. If you want to search for "sex", you get to type "sex" yourself.
Very complicated.
I tried it, it still appears as an autocomplete suggestions, but none of the videos showed have anything to do with kids. I wonder how it ended up there.
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It's a matter of proper wording. Look for horse mating.
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To be fair there's some pretty fucking awful stuff out there regarding specific grooming methods and drugging instructions, on top of the even more awful stuff about how to not seriously injure parts that small during sex.
or a barrel bolt on the master bedroom door just in case.
You seem to have either over achieving kids or an over active imagination.
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Only on /. you could make a joke about something disgusting and someone replies with well thought out, helpful information you wish you wouldn't have gotten...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It's more funny than it is offensive. The autocomplete combines partial phrases with nouns and verbs. Both sex and children are "popular" individual search terms. It is a false implication that the whole sentence is popular.
The computer doesn't know that to combine them in certain sentences is inappropriate. It's very simple programming and programming around these rare combinations is going to slow down webpages and the internet when you consider how many languages there are along with slang and double entendre's.
Stop being so politically correct.
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You mean "Web2.0"...? (which is actually pretty much Web1.0, thank you very much AOL.....)
"Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
Wish you wouldn't have gotten???
Better throw RED FEVER accusations around too to shut down any discussion and prevent justifiably shocked people from being shocked.
Back on topic: Do you really think this is plausibly anything other than YouTube counter-attacking the conspiracy theory community in thanks for Elsa-gate...? Just throw out some super out-there, too delicious to be true BULLSHIT, so the people paying attention can look stupid when they it later gets blamed on 4chan......?!
"Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
Actually no. It literally did come up as "s*x" as this Reddit post notices.
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Oh wow
Special thanks go to the Anonymous Cowards (ACs) on Slashdot who protested this false narrative, posted news article links and tried to raise awareness about this serious issue.
Hahaha I'm dying. Yeah sure you have no interest in the subject. That's why you checked if your liquidated assets would be enough to buy a child bride of your own.
I think because if one had to find creative ways to make love with his wife living in a flat and a child with a light sleep, has somewhat to find creative ways to do it. Besides someone could find that make a date again with her husband could be really really fun.
On the other hand the media hammering on sexual predators makes people immediately think to these situations. The TV does it because talking about a couple still in lov after having a couple of child is boring and doesn't sell advertising, when a crime attracts a lot of viewers...
Maybe it is just a weird way of phasing "how to have sex when you have kids", as in "how to avoid having little monsters interrupt intimate moments". And "how to have sex in school" is probably a question that is in the mind of every teenager...
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" is even truer with computers.
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Say it with me now. SEX! It's a thing, it exists, it's not a dirty word. Ok tutorials on youtube probably ain't great but why can't/won't TFA say the word sex. It's like they're talking about such forbidden fruit it's no wonder the kids end up so messed up, pretend it doesn't exist til they're 18 and then expect them to know all about it.
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I know that parents of 3 children can find the time/location to have sex, or even just the energy to have sex. After all, I see parents with 4 children (ignoring twins/trips/other multiple births).
I'm just very confused on *where* they are finding the time, energy, etc
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You mean Deadpool?
>I'm just very confused on *where* they are finding the time, energy, etc
Post-kid sex is often not quite as casual or energetic as pre-kid sex, that's for sure. Definitely not as energetic at least until you get to occasionally sleep for 8 hours straight.
Too many times. Things like "How to exterminate a social group"; just for fun. If we are talking about CP, I suppose no one would search it in Google.
If it's not a few 4chan denizens, who do you think is running the zombie horde running the script stuffing these phrases into YouTube? That horde is worth real money, but instead the herder is fucking with YouTube for the luls.
Likely the most skilled neural net trainer YouTube never hired.
This sounds right up "/b's" alley. BTW if you're reading this, keep up the good work!
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Sorry, still tons of tomi lahren videos on youtube. Anti-conservative youtube is a myth.
The number of demonitized conservative Youtube content creators calls you a fucking liar.
But, that goes along with liberalism anyway. If liberals didn't have a double standard, they wouldn't have any standards at all.
You're a moron. Nothing is disturbing here. It's an algorithm. If you think the content it worked on is disturbing, go complain about that content. The algorithm seems to be working just fine.
I tried asking "How to use YouTube Autofill" ...
Sigh. Missed out on another fad.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
How the "your" got inserted is a slight mystery but it's possible that either people are typing it that way or google is somehow inserting the your for some reason.
I think Google was truncating longer search terms into a common root suggestion:
I've seen it before for long queries where suggest doesn't seem to come up with a complete query that anyone would use. Although in this particular case they picked the worst possible place to truncate it. Maybe because they're actually were a couple of searches for "how to have sex with your kids" and then all the non-pedophile versions just added to it's popularity.
Only on /. you could make a joke about something disgusting and someone replies with well thought out, helpful information you wish you wouldn't have gotten...
This! Wish I had mod points.
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Seems like the author is conflating auto-complete suggestions with search results.
Posting actual pedo shit is one thing.
Trolling the 'Oh noes, the childrenz!' people is something else. It's a phrase of text.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
People inside and outside of Youtube as a company have stated that they have very clear evidence that Youtube staff does no care or purposely ignores laws and child safety and illegal content etc because they put image and marketing and PR and growth above all else. THAT is what caused this. A huge multi-channel owner named Matthias is currently destroying them on social media over this issue and they're still doing nothing to fix it while lying and saying that they are. I'm surprised they aren't forwarding all searchers of these terms IP addresses to the NSA or something. Like seriously, Google does that for other categories.
Several users are reporting that they found YouTube autocompleting search queries starting with 'how to have' with disturbing suggestions, including 's*x with your kids' over the weekend. From a report:
A YouTube spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that the matter is still under investigation. "Earlier today our teams were alerted to this awful autocomplete result and we worked to quickly remove it," the company said. "We are investigating this matter to determine what was behind the appearance of this autocompletion."
We tried the same query on YouTube less than an hour before publication of this story, and we found "how to have s*x in school," and "how to have s*x with kids" were still surfacing in the results.
Not for me it does. If I type "how to have" I get innocuous suggestions
https://i.imgur.com/lkatvJV.pn...
Interesting if you type "how to have sex" you get suggestions
https://i.imgur.com/5DryMlR.pn...
but as soon as you hit space and get to "how to have sex " it stops
https://i.imgur.com/nYqdcVU.pn...
There are three options here. It runs off what you've searched for before, and the Buzzfeed guy had done a search for "sex with kids".
Or Youtube have fixed it so that as soon as you get to "how to have sex " it stops giving you suggestions.
Or Buzzfeed are lying.
All of those seem pretty plausible to me.
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Except that I just went to youtube and I got suggestions like "a British accent", "a lucid dream", "clear skin", "confidence", "good handwriting". So either it was something to do with cookies stored in the users browser, or Google actually DID address the issue as you say they should.
And what exactly do you think "the algorithm" is? Its a tool for ranking sites and prioritizing the sites they think people want to see. If its prioritizing sex with kids for a large percentage of searchers, then the algorithm is absolutely not working "fine."
Unless you want to claim that a large percentage of the population really wants to have sex with their kids enough to be Googling for it, but I'd definitely need to see your citation on that one.
Really though, this is standard operating procedure for Google. Sure its rare that it happens to suggest a topic as sensitive as child molestation and that's why it made news this time, but Google is continuously tweaking their algorithm and tomorrow they might be running into the same problem with "how to" suggesting "how to bake a fruitcake" and realizing few people really want to do that so downgrade those results a bit and promote "how to cook a turkey" instead or whatever they do (we can assume its more complicated and generalized than my example of course!)
Fun fact: 98.2% of jack booted witch burners who spend a lot of time thinking about how they are "disturbed" by pedophilia on the internet, are themselves closet pedos.
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I remember the good old days when an idiot with a bug up their ass about something stupid would just be ignored. The worst part of the internet is that idiots amplify each other's nonsense and get taken seriously.
Good point. Unless it pulls up instructional videos or demonstrations, it's a non-issue.
Ever notice on Bing image search it throws in some odd stuff, like sometimes regular porn, nudist or family photos get mixed together and in that case some nude images of children or families are mixed in with porn. Personally I find that really disturbing because it exposes those images in a sexual context when the images were not intended as sexual. It creates a potential safe space for pedophile type behavior. I also get nude images of dead bodies sometimes mixed with porn images which is disturbing, but the kid stuff really worries me how accessible it's become seemingly by accident on Microsoft's part.