In before this creates a safe space for transphobia and bigotry but does nothing to address shit like that one YouTuber that recently got permanently banned because she knocked over a lamp their automated systems flagged it as “child abuse content.”
My guess is that MAGA content was getting flagged, and Youtube believes that should be monetizable in modern America.
Their advertisers are prolly salivating about it, if not behind it.
Maga are great for advertisers, low information & highly susceptible.
The example given in the article already seems concerning. It’s just going to allow misinfo to spread worse than it already was
🤣 this will end well. Acceleration to the max!!!
Good. The Internet was always supposed to be an opportunity to expand the overton window. It’s incredible how much we’ve been allowing tech companies to be censors in the first place, anything that undoes this development is good.
Sure, but this is only going to expand the Overton window in one direction. People with facts tend not to be as inflammatory.
I watch a sketch comedy group that gets abused by YouTube’s moderation. Some of their stuff leans edgy, but the moderation and demonetization seems pretty arbitrary. There is no viable appeal process or viable alternative platform. Reminds me of how Google controls the Play store and removes open source projects for arbitrary or spurious reasons.
I take less issue with aggressive moderation and more issue with the lack of infrastructure to handle the concept that the first line ai decision might be wrong.
