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Surely they should be asking creators whether they classify their vids as kid friendly? For young kids I wouldn't want any swearing or other allusions to adult

Surely they should be asking creators whether they classify their vids as kid friendly? For young kids I wouldn't want any swearing or other allusions to adult themes (not that I want my young kids watching YouTube). If you want to aim at young kids the rules should be a lot stricter than the current ones. The current mess is too lax for young kids and too strict for anyone older. And seems to treat educational and entertainment content equally. I want kids to know about the Holocaust. I don't want them watching a possibly racist comedy sketch about gassing Jews though.

knaik94 4y ago
I wonder when AI will reach a point where it can reasonably detect and classify more esoteric forms of humor. Deadpan humor is very difficult to explain to a computer, the reason it is funny is because the delivery sounds like it is not a joke. You have to intuit that the speaker would never ever believe what they are saying for it to be funny. At some point even comments will become a signal Youtube uses to decide how to classify videos. And no, there have been many channels over the years that have complained about the age-restriction issue even though they expressed clearly that the are a mixed-audience channel. To show a much much more severe example, here's a tweet showing youtube misclassifying Happy Tree Friends as kids friendly, a cartoon style animated show about cute looking animals that get gruesomely killed in various cruel and disturbing situations. Clearly a parody of things like Tom and Jerry in many ways. Reasonable and artistically meaningful, especially when it came out in 1999, but clearly no human was in that misclassification process. They are 1 to 5 minute episodes. https://twitter.com/Rat_Tail_Tony/status/1215015868515655680 https://twitter.com/Rat_Tail_Tony/status/1215015868515655680
- benj111 4y ago
  >And no, there have been many channels over the years that have complained about the age-restriction issue even though they expressed clearly that the are a mixed-audience channel. I know. What I'm saying is channels should have the choice of declaring themselves kid friendly and be judged accordingly. The current rules are too lax for kid friendly videos and videos are automatically being put in that slot which is the worst solution for everyone.
charcircuit 4y ago
They already ask that

knaik94 4y ago

I wonder when AI will reach a point where it can reasonably detect and classify more esoteric forms of humor. Deadpan humor is very difficult to explain to a computer, the reason it is funny is because the delivery sounds like it is not a joke. You have to intuit that the speaker would never ever believe what they are saying for it to be funny. At some point even comments will become a signal Youtube uses to decide how to classify videos. And no, there have been many channels over the years that have complained about the age-restriction issue even though they expressed clearly that the are a mixed-audience channel. To show a much much more severe example, here's a tweet showing youtube misclassifying Happy Tree Friends as kids friendly, a cartoon style animated show about cute looking animals that get gruesomely killed in various cruel and disturbing situations. Clearly a parody of things like Tom and Jerry in many ways. Reasonable and artistically meaningful, especially when it came out in 1999, but clearly no human was in that misclassification process. They are 1 to 5 minute episodes. https://twitter.com/Rat_Tail_Tony/status/1215015868515655680 https://twitter.com/Rat_Tail_Tony/status/1215015868515655680

benj111 4y ago
>And no, there have been many channels over the years that have complained about the age-restriction issue even though they expressed clearly that the are a mixed-audience channel. I know. What I'm saying is channels should have the choice of declaring themselves kid friendly and be judged accordingly. The current rules are too lax for kid friendly videos and videos are automatically being put in that slot which is the worst solution for everyone.

charcircuit 4y ago

They already ask that