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Why does an AI have that power?

rocqua 6y ago
Because it helps against abuse, allows youtube to claim "We are doing something about X" and is pretty dang cheap. And the cost of getting it wrong is pretty low for youtube.
6510 6y ago
Trial by robot, welcome to 2020
arp242 6y ago
There is nothing wrong with the AI having that power as such IMO, as long as humans have the ability to override it. The problems are mostly in that last part IMO.
- soco 6y ago
  Well in this particular case the YouTube humans surely have the ability but won't do anything about it. It feels pretty much the same, if you're at the receiving end of the stick.
  - arp242 6y ago
    I'm not so sure the regular Google support people have all that much power to change things; based on the various story I hear, I suspect they have very little power.
userbinator 6y ago
Situations like this are precisely why I'm against people who want to "automate everything" --- sooner or later a complex system is going to do something wrong, possibly with severe consequences, and you're going to have a very hard time figuring out what happened and how to fix it.
rtkwe 6y ago
Because somewhere north of 500 hours of content is uploaded to YT every minute. Scanning and moderating that with people would be very expensive so they turned it mostly over to algorithms to have a hope of keeping some control over the nature of YouTube to keep it advertiser friendly. Then when a channel has accrued enough strikes to warrant removal you as YouTube potentially have hundreds of hours of video to consider if you're trying to manually review removals.
- the_other 6y ago
  I can understand the inspection and analysis, but why automate the decision making over something that terminates potential revenue, and hampers goodwill?
  - rtkwe 6y ago
    Except for the larger channels any individual channel doesn't bring in much revenue and the larger channels get some contact with a rep where they can get actual support. Though even that can be spotty from the stories some channels tell; like the time one of CGPGrey's secondary channels was banned... for impersonating CGPGrey.

Because it helps against abuse, allows youtube to claim "We are doing something about X" and is pretty dang cheap. And the cost of getting it wrong is pretty low for youtube.

6510 6y ago

Trial by robot, welcome to 2020

arp242 6y ago

There is nothing wrong with the AI having that power as such IMO, as long as humans have the ability to override it. The problems are mostly in that last part IMO.

soco 6y ago
Well in this particular case the YouTube humans surely have the ability but won't do anything about it. It feels pretty much the same, if you're at the receiving end of the stick.
- arp242 6y ago
  I'm not so sure the regular Google support people have all that much power to change things; based on the various story I hear, I suspect they have very little power.

userbinator 6y ago

Situations like this are precisely why I'm against people who want to "automate everything" --- sooner or later a complex system is going to do something wrong, possibly with severe consequences, and you're going to have a very hard time figuring out what happened and how to fix it.

rtkwe 6y ago

Because somewhere north of 500 hours of content is uploaded to YT every minute. Scanning and moderating that with people would be very expensive so they turned it mostly over to algorithms to have a hope of keeping some control over the nature of YouTube to keep it advertiser friendly. Then when a channel has accrued enough strikes to warrant removal you as YouTube potentially have hundreds of hours of video to consider if you're trying to manually review removals.

the_other 6y ago
I can understand the inspection and analysis, but why automate the decision making over something that terminates potential revenue, and hampers goodwill?
- rtkwe 6y ago
  Except for the larger channels any individual channel doesn't bring in much revenue and the larger channels get some contact with a rep where they can get actual support. Though even that can be spotty from the stories some channels tell; like the time one of CGPGrey's secondary channels was banned... for impersonating CGPGrey.