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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.
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.
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.
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.
Link?
No, there's likely something else going on, adland has a pretty good article on it.
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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.
Actually no. It literally did come up as "s*x" as this Reddit post notices.
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.
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'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.
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.