machine learning

• What would happen if you could talk directly to the recommendation algorithm? X is about to find out
• YouTube gets caught using “machine learning” to tweak creators’ Shorts after they go live

  YouTube has been criticized by creators over unapproved changes to Shorts that appear to involve machine learning (and potentially AI).

  
• YouTube Deleted 8.3 Million Objectionable Videos Last Quarter, Thanks Mostly To Machines

  In addition to its first-ever YouTube Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, YouTube is also enabling creators to see the status of any of their own flagged videos in a new Reporting History dashboard.

  
• Workers Enlisted By YouTube For AI-Training Efforts Make 10 Cents A Task To Analyze Videos

  A report in Wired details the process workers on the Amazon-owned hub MTurk go through to train YouTube's content-flagging AI.

  
• YouTube Says 70% Of All Watch Time Is Driven By Its Own Recommendations
• YouTube Will Have 10,000 Humans Working To Purge Questionable Content In 2018
• YouTube Erroneously Removed Videos Showing Potential War Crimes In Syria, Activists Say
• YouTube Will Place Flagged “Supremacist” Videos That Don’t Violate Its Guidelines In A “Limited State”
• Can Instagram Use AI To Weed Out Hate Speech?
• YouTube Updates Its Automatic Captions To Catch Common Sound Effects
• YouTube Viewers Now Consume 1 Billion Hours Of Content Every Single Day
• Google Unveils YouTube-8M, A Research Database Of 8 Million Videos To Help Improve Search