YouTube admits 'wrong call' over deletion of Syrian war crime videos

Re:YouTube admits 'wrong call' over deletion of Syrian war c... by lovich on Friday August 18, 2017 @05:47PM (#15050014)

Is there any problem you wouldn't frame as technical then? If the software isn't anywhere close to capable enough to do this task and YouTube decides to use it anyway that is a management problem. Otherwise literally every problem is technical and we just don't have the software to fix it yet

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Re:YouTube admits 'wrong call' over deletion of Syrian war c... by ajross on Friday August 18, 2017 @06:30PM (#15050262)

Sure: "Should Google be involved in censoring extremist content?". There's a moral question on exactly this issue. And the answer doesn't depend on whether it's possible for Google to do it or not.

What you guys and your downvotes are doing is trying to avoid making an argument on the moral issue directly (which is hard) and just taking potshots at Google for their technical failure as if it also constitutes a moral failure. And that's not fair.

If they shouldn't be doing this they shouldn't be doing this. Make that argument.

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Re:YouTube admits 'wrong call' over deletion of Syrian war c... by bobdole1234 on Saturday August 19, 2017 @01:10AM (#15051796)

The software makes literally millions of correct calls every day, both positive and negative.

I'd say it's pretty capable.

Human raters are a fucking nightmare of inconsistency and bias. I'd guess this is more accurate at this point, and is only going to improve.

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