YouTube Says Computers Helped It Pull Down Millions of Objectionable Videos Last Quarter (recode.net)

YouTube says it has successfully trained computers to flag objectionable videos. In the last quarter of 2017, the company reportedly pulled down more than six million of these videos before any users saw them. The news comes from a brief aside in Google CEO Sundar Pichai's scripted remarks during parent company Alphabet's earnings call today. "He said YouTube had pulled down more than six million videos in the last quarter of 2017 after first being flagged by its 'machine systems,' and that 75 percent of those videos 'were removed before receiving a single view,'" reports Recode.

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They do stupid shit so you don't have to.

[technosaurus]

Many of the real world science shows get shut down by this crap: King of Random, Cody's Lab, Demolition Ranch to name a few. One of Cody's takedowns was how to make (low quality) gunpowder over the course of a year using your urine. Who can keep up with their terms of use anyhow. Too bad Youtube doesn't spend as much effort on the UI (try and search the comments sometime).

Re:googliness

[DNS-and-BIND]

It would be nice if Google were a capitalist company. But no, they don't practice capitalism, they practice corporatism. Moreover they are super left wing, you can't even say that men and women are different without getting fired and blacklisted throughout the entire IT industry. They keep their own blacklists internally and continually police their workers for signs of thoughtcrime.