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This is nonsense though. Criminals livestreaming crypto scams go through hundreds of hacked accounts every day, their stuff is constantly getting taken down. I

by prvit 4y ago

This is nonsense though. Criminals livestreaming crypto scams go through hundreds of hacked accounts every day, their stuff is constantly getting taken down. It's just their incentive structure which is different than that of the Apollo program footage uploader.

tjpnz 4y ago
Except they're not all getting taken down. I've observed multiple fake Elon Musk/SpaceX accounts with histories going back months.
throw_m239339 4y ago
I remember during the PS5 reveal stream, Youtube was recommending me crypto scam live streams promising free PS5 and Youtube was taking down none of them. Youtube was actively recommending me scams, I don't care how flawed their recommendation algorithm is, it was unacceptable.
Nextgrid 4y ago
> go through hundreds of hacked accounts every day, their stuff is constantly getting taken down. YouTube has very advanced image & voice recognition technology that is very efficient at flagging (and demonetizing) certain content merely based on trigger words (terrible for science channels that show fire/explosions/etc even though there is no violence involved). If crypto is such a popular target, maybe introduce an extra verification step (that requires uploading ID/etc) to whitelist channels for crypto-related content, and any other channels that have not done the verification (because they don't plan to upload crypto content) can't upload anything that matches those words? This would at least prevent non-crypto-related channels from being hacked and suddenly starting a crypto scam livestream. The reason it's not done of course is because Google bears no liability (despite promoting these scams in the "recommended" section) and the scammers & victims still generate "engagement" and watch ads.
- prvit 4y ago
  >YouTube has very advanced image & voice recognition technology that is very efficient at flagging (and demonetizing) certain content merely based on trigger words (terrible for science channels that show fire/explosions/etc even though there is no violence involved). Or perhaps the technology isn't that advanced, and cryptocurrency scammers have stronger incentives to work around it than legitimate channels?

by prvit 4y ago

tjpnz 4y ago

Except they're not all getting taken down. I've observed multiple fake Elon Musk/SpaceX accounts with histories going back months.

throw_m239339 4y ago

I remember during the PS5 reveal stream, Youtube was recommending me crypto scam live streams promising free PS5 and Youtube was taking down none of them. Youtube was actively recommending me scams, I don't care how flawed their recommendation algorithm is, it was unacceptable.

Nextgrid 4y ago

> go through hundreds of hacked accounts every day, their stuff is constantly getting taken down. YouTube has very advanced image & voice recognition technology that is very efficient at flagging (and demonetizing) certain content merely based on trigger words (terrible for science channels that show fire/explosions/etc even though there is no violence involved). If crypto is such a popular target, maybe introduce an extra verification step (that requires uploading ID/etc) to whitelist channels for crypto-related content, and any other channels that have not done the verification (because they don't plan to upload crypto content) can't upload anything that matches those words? This would at least prevent non-crypto-related channels from being hacked and suddenly starting a crypto scam livestream. The reason it's not done of course is because Google bears no liability (despite promoting these scams in the "recommended" section) and the scammers & victims still generate "engagement" and watch ads.

prvit 4y ago
>YouTube has very advanced image & voice recognition technology that is very efficient at flagging (and demonetizing) certain content merely based on trigger words (terrible for science channels that show fire/explosions/etc even though there is no violence involved). Or perhaps the technology isn't that advanced, and cryptocurrency scammers have stronger incentives to work around it than legitimate channels?