Re:YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of...
by dehrmann on Sunday February 21, 2021 @09:43PM
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Be careful not to confuse manual review with an appeal. When I say "manual review," I mean the classifier isn't sure, so a human double checked, or it was sent to a human to validate the classifier. You're right--appeals are hard to get--but we have no idea how much Youtube manually reviews content.
Re:YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of...
by polishTar on Sunday February 21, 2021 @09:48PM
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It's a genuinely hard problem, but they do have appeal systems that creators can use that go to human reviewer queues for things like video removals and demonetization even though the first pass is done via automation, but don't think humans aren't immune from mistakes either.
As of 2018 youtube had 10,000 manual reviewers (and I imagine it's significantly more than that today), but at their scale, that realistically won't go that far.
I’ve yet to see a case of the hoi poloi get a manual review - you either are a well enough known YouTuber where they have humans dedicated to you, you know someone who works at YouTube and can intercede on your behalf, or you have to whip up a Twitter mob big enough that it hurts YouTube's image or stirs up people with contacts at YouTube.
Even then, sometimes that doesn’t work - look at the Terraria dev.
YouTube effectively has no manual review for 99.9% of people which is why its automated systems accuracy is so important.