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> Isn't there a problem with the sampling here? What if people who likely install RegretsReporter are also people who are more likely to view tangentially relat
by uniqueuid 5y ago
> Isn't there a problem with the sampling here? What if people who likely install RegretsReporter are also people who are more likely to view tangentially related problematic content in the first place, and then are shown more of it. Also, the dividing line on what's consider problematic is difficult, as we saw recently with Right Wing Watch.
As I commented above, sampling is a problem, but the sample was only used to gather candidate videos which were then manually analyzed following Youtube's own content guidelines.
So the takeaway is: According to the study's authors, Youtube recommends videos despite them violating their own guidelines.
- cromwellian 5y agoDoes Right Wing Watch violate the guidelines? It’s difficult enough to make AI that could enforce these guidelines, but even with a staff of tens of thousands of human evaluators I doubt you could avoid even 10% false positives given how much people argue over classification already. This kind of filtering, some say censoring, is super problematic both to pull off And to please all stakeholders, which is why a one size fits all regulation is likely to fail and create a new class of problems.