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Even if critical thinking is taught in school this problem wouldn't be solved. These videos pass by in feeds and people think "that looks cool" or "aww cute" an

Even if critical thinking is taught in school this problem wouldn't be solved. These videos pass by in feeds and people think "that looks cool" or "aww cute" and keep going. They don't open up photoshop and analyze the parallax and object seams. People do not have time nor cause to investigate every video or news item that comes up. Even the investors of Nikola didn't have time to do a full due diligence before investing! Most of this fake-content is largely banal (cakes, speed records) as for the non-banal, platforms need to step up and hinder or stop its spread.

scoutt 6y ago
The question is why these videos "pass by in feeds". Is because they are popular? If so, why? Is because people is "liking" this kind of content? To "like", you do it under a certain criteria. This criteria should exclude "shady" content under the knowledge that paying attention to the content means "to feed it". This can be taught but it's not.
- idrios 6y ago
  Still puts the onus on the wrong party. The videos in question had 10's of thousands of views but were produced in such large quantity that the sum of all videos was in the millions of views. By law of large numbers even if you educate 95% of the population how to notice when something's not right, an exploiter like this can still just keep getting views from the other 5%. And the channel in question was in Vietnam, very likely views were coming from all parts of the world. It's not like adding critical thinking to US school curriculum could have stopped this anyway EDIT: Rereading your comment I realize you were talking about how this gets shared at all and the algorithm that's used to make these videos recommended. My guess is that the channel had a couple dozen or hundred subscribers, and they maybe did some advertising on r/aww or something similar. I don't think it would be hard to get the numbers they were getting even if YouTube wasn't recommending these videos to anyone at all
Nextgrid 6y ago
A lot of the fake content out there (both benign and malicious) is being paid for by "engagement" aka ads. If you remove that revenue stream (or attach liability to it, like the platform being complicit in the animal abuse in this case), you solve a large part of the problem.
- judge2020 6y ago
  Removing money fixes most social problems.
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jt2190 6y ago
Could a browser plugin do the image analysis, then score the image?

scoutt 6y ago

The question is why these videos "pass by in feeds". Is because they are popular? If so, why? Is because people is "liking" this kind of content? To "like", you do it under a certain criteria. This criteria should exclude "shady" content under the knowledge that paying attention to the content means "to feed it". This can be taught but it's not.

idrios 6y ago
Still puts the onus on the wrong party. The videos in question had 10's of thousands of views but were produced in such large quantity that the sum of all videos was in the millions of views. By law of large numbers even if you educate 95% of the population how to notice when something's not right, an exploiter like this can still just keep getting views from the other 5%. And the channel in question was in Vietnam, very likely views were coming from all parts of the world. It's not like adding critical thinking to US school curriculum could have stopped this anyway EDIT: Rereading your comment I realize you were talking about how this gets shared at all and the algorithm that's used to make these videos recommended. My guess is that the channel had a couple dozen or hundred subscribers, and they maybe did some advertising on r/aww or something similar. I don't think it would be hard to get the numbers they were getting even if YouTube wasn't recommending these videos to anyone at all

Nextgrid 6y ago

A lot of the fake content out there (both benign and malicious) is being paid for by "engagement" aka ads. If you remove that revenue stream (or attach liability to it, like the platform being complicit in the animal abuse in this case), you solve a large part of the problem.

judge2020 6y ago
Removing money fixes most social problems.
- deleted 6y ago
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jt2190 6y ago

Could a browser plugin do the image analysis, then score the image?