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> 4. Yes paedophiles do spend a lot of time watching kids videos online. We can use unusual watch time patterns to spot this, and that's good - but really paedo
by d1zzy 8y ago
> 4. Yes paedophiles do spend a lot of time watching kids videos online. We can use unusual watch time patterns to spot this, and that's good - but really paedophilia has been a problem for 10,000 years and we as society need to find wider bigger ways to tackle this - along with medicine this will be a huge win for social ROI
What is the law that is being broken here? Why is it a problem that someone (pedophile or not) is watching a lot of legal content (that happens to feature kids)?
- ceejayoz 8y agoWhat in the quoted sentence claims a law is being broken?
- simmanian 8y agoIt doesn't. And GP is pretty obviously asking why we should punish pedophiles for watching kids videos on YT.
- lifeisstillgood 8y agoActually I am quite happy for paedophilia to be punished (or rather child abuse / rape in case there is some distinction between fantasy and acting upon it) but the main point I am making is that these platforms all have significant pressure to "tackle paedophilia" - and while they do offer a novel approach (there was a reference recently in wired showing tracking the time spent watching family videos by people wildly outside of the family network (ie usually a video of a kid dancing in a tutu is seen by 30/50 people. When views hit 10,000 there is something to investigate) But in the end "tackling paedophilia" is not something we can offload to the AI in youtube - it's a massive social cost and so a massive social investment.