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First dot point: Developing and updating new community guidelines on YouTube, that we strictly enforce, on a range of harmful content, including suicide and se
by BLKNSLVR 3y ago
First dot point:
Developing and updating new community guidelines on YouTube, that we strictly
enforce, on a range of harmful content, including suicide and self harm, scams,
elections misinformation, harrassment and hate speech;
YouTube actively advertises videos of investment scams to me.
In our experience, algorithmic tools are effective at
identifying CSAM and certain types of violent extremist content, but will struggle to accurately
identify other, more context-dependent forms of illegal and harmful content.
So Google aren't against automated scanning of anything and everything, it's the potential of mis-classification that they're concerned about.
This would leave UK users with a poorer quality Internet relative to elsewhere.
Elsewhere will catch up though.
We believe that protection of children
should be considered holistically, and their right to access information and to privacy must be
respected in much the same way that we would expect for adults
Sarcastic chuckle at the arrogance and meaninglessness of this commentary.
The whole Advertising section is worth reading to get an idea of the value Google believes it is offering to the world.
- raverbashing 3y agoI don't think even ChatGPT would have done a worse job of explaining this > So Google aren't against automated scanning of anything and everything, it's the potential of mis-classification that they're concerned about. They can live with a half-assed solution that only benefits then, but if it means they have to do more work and assume liability then suddenly it's not so great