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A year or so ago, every second image ad on YouTube was literal porn. From a technical standpoint it was pretty obvious what happened. The image was overlaid wi
by yayachiken 4y ago
A year or so ago, every second image ad on YouTube was literal porn.
From a technical standpoint it was pretty obvious what happened. The image was overlaid with a grid of white lines. As the images were likely downsampled to reduce the required computing power, when the image was cropped right, the ML algorithm only saw a plain white image.
The only way to appeal this was a Google Support Forum where people posted screenshots and some "Gold Member Community Moderators" or whatever they were called, dismissed all complaints. They claimed that every ad was checked, porn getting through was impossible, and the people should factory-reset their phones as the only explanation was that viruses on their phone were injecting these ads...
- tadfisher 4y agoGoogle's product forums are just users supporting other users. "Community moderators" and "product experts" are just users who have farmed enough upvotes to get a badge. Not sure what else is in it for them, but Internet points are hard to come by these days...
- yayachiken 4y agoYes, but the buck still stops at Google, especially if the forum is the only point of contact, and the community moderators act like they speak in behalf of the company. Even Reddit, which is notoriously bad with its moderator policies, at least has a process how to raise disputes with moderator behaviour, and escalate them to actual company employees. Google does not even care.