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Google's AI has gone totally bonkers. I've been routinely getting emails about 'adult content' in my videos and my videos get age restricted. Last one was a sim

Google's AI has gone totally bonkers. I've been routinely getting emails about 'adult content' in my videos and my videos get age restricted. Last one was a simple screen recording I made of an error to send a company with nothing but mostly white screen. I tried to appeal it but it also got rejected too (I guess that's also automatic?) and a quick search showed that I'm not alone, it is happening a lot.(1) The email you get from Google is also very scary like my actions may have some negative consequences for my Youtube account. (1) https://www.google.com/search?q=reddit+YouTube+age+restricted+my+video https://www.google.com/search?q=reddit+YouTube+age+restricte...

breakingcups 5y ago
I truly don't understand the point of appeals to an automated process if the handling of that appeal is also going to be automatic.
- bryanrasmussen 5y ago
  So you have a number of AI bots running but some take longer and use more computing power than other ones - as you go through the appeals process you get shuffled along to the more and more expensive bots until finally you get denied by every bot and are fresh out of appeals.
  - blunte 5y ago
    Or the appeals are automatic "No, sorry" responses. I would love to see proof of an AI appeal that was successful.
ourcat 5y ago
I recently had an Android app removed from the Play Store for offensive content in the screenshots. We're a music site/radio station, and the name of the song playing in the player was 'XXX'. That's all it was. It has been in the store like that for a few years. Updating the screenshots got it listed again, but it was, as you say, totally bonkers.
- nine_k 5y ago
  Frankly, this was provoking, and was not something you could not reasonably notice. If it felt like an innocent joke, that was a signal enough; robots are devoid of sense of humor. Remember, only the paranoid survive :-\
  - ourcat 5y ago
    Their 'screenshot' bots even sent a copy of the "offending" ones with a little red box drawn around the "XXX" song title in the footer player. (I assume, via CV or similar)

breakingcups 5y ago

I truly don't understand the point of appeals to an automated process if the handling of that appeal is also going to be automatic.

bryanrasmussen 5y ago
So you have a number of AI bots running but some take longer and use more computing power than other ones - as you go through the appeals process you get shuffled along to the more and more expensive bots until finally you get denied by every bot and are fresh out of appeals.
- blunte 5y ago
  Or the appeals are automatic "No, sorry" responses. I would love to see proof of an AI appeal that was successful.

ourcat 5y ago

I recently had an Android app removed from the Play Store for offensive content in the screenshots. We're a music site/radio station, and the name of the song playing in the player was 'XXX'. That's all it was. It has been in the store like that for a few years. Updating the screenshots got it listed again, but it was, as you say, totally bonkers.

nine_k 5y ago
Frankly, this was provoking, and was not something you could not reasonably notice. If it felt like an innocent joke, that was a signal enough; robots are devoid of sense of humor. Remember, only the paranoid survive :-\
- ourcat 5y ago
  Their 'screenshot' bots even sent a copy of the "offending" ones with a little red box drawn around the "XXX" song title in the footer player. (I assume, via CV or similar)