Re:YouTube employees say violent threats from creators have ...
by pluma on Friday April 20, 2018 @05:22AM
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This is pretty much it.
YouTube disavow their responsibility by deferring their decisions to "the algorithm" and surely you can't blame a machine. But the obvious truth is that they're in control of it and could change it -- even if it is too complicated to predict, nothing is forcing them to use it and they could still replace it with something more predictable but less "error-prone". Instead they chose not to, which means they are entirely responsible for the outcome.
This isn't unique to YouTube either. Plenty of tech companies try to hide behind a wall of maths to justify unethical behavior.
YouTube disavow their responsibility by deferring their decisions to "the algorithm" and surely you can't blame a machine. But the obvious truth is that they're in control of it and could change it -- even if it is too complicated to predict, nothing is forcing them to use it and they could still replace it with something more predictable but less "error-prone". Instead they chose not to, which means they are entirely responsible for the outcome.
This isn't unique to YouTube either. Plenty of tech companies try to hide behind a wall of maths to justify unethical behavior.