YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
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Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
#2I guess the decision to take down the channel wasn't as black and white as they originally thought.
Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
#3Not sure what a thinly resourced piece like this is doing so high up on HN. There’s really very little evidence that this has anything to do with racial slurs.
From a quick read: last June, the channel was banned for “harmful and dangerous” content. The ban was removed in under 24 hours. YouTube has not confirmed the reason. And yet:
> Experts suspect that it was the usage of words like "black" and "white" that confused the Yutube's AI filters.
Well, if experts said it, it just be true! The experiment they ran is speculative as best and the article just ran with it as absolute fact. If the filter was caused by use of “black” and “white” wouldn’t every chess channel fall victim to it? The filter isn’t new, why was it triggered once last June?
A lot of questions raised and an article that has no interest in answering them. It’s credited to “Buzz Staff”… I think it’s always suspect when no one wants to attach their name to something they wrote. A smell of clickbait running all the way through this one.
Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
#4This must be nipped in the bud before it just turns into a billionaire’s tool for shutting down conversations on class consciousness.
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#5“ The researchers now suggest that social-media platforms should incorporate chess language in their algorithms to avoid future incidents like this.”
Or maybe don’t automate banning YouTube channels via nebulous black boxes? Or can advertisers stop being afraid of anything and everything?
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#7Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
#8Not sure what a thinly resourced piece like this is doing so high up on HN. There’s really very little evidence that this has anything to do with racial slurs. From a quick read: last June, the channel was banned for “harmful and dangerous” content. The ban was removed in under 24 hours. YouTube has not confirmed the reason. And yet: > Experts suspect that it was the usage of words like "black" and "white" that confu…
Well, what else might it be? Agadmator is just a chess channel. He does breakdowns of chess games and that’s pretty much it.
Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
#9“ The researchers now suggest that social-media platforms should incorporate chess language in their algorithms to avoid future incidents like this.” Or maybe don’t automate banning YouTube channels via nebulous black boxes? Or can advertisers stop being afraid of anything and everything?
Your comment has been moderated for racist language ("black boxes").
Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
#10I recently took some actions to reduce the damage if Google ever ban my account.
I'm now using a custom email domain (although it's just redirecting to my Gmail for now), and doing regular backups of my emails (through Thurderbird) and Google Drive.
With these news being more and more common, you never know when it'll happen to you.