While content ID is another problem, I agree it is highly convenient the same recommendation system that permits (and enables, and encourages!) this activity ca

While content ID is another problem, I agree it is highly convenient the same recommendation system that permits (and enables, and encourages!) this activity can't internally be reused by them to prevent it. They already pay contractors to filter through illegal images, in comparison this seems like.. no pun intended, childsplay The most horrid thought occurred to me while reading this, that somewhere within Google there may be a glossy (autogenerated or otherwise) report detailing exactly how many people are watching these videos and falling into this particular gradient of the recommendation model. Perhaps even read and passed up as too difficult to extract value from by their ads team. A company of this size (YouTube, not just Google) couldn't possibly be oblivious to this