Sam Oh, the Vice President of Marketing at Ahrefs, recently shed light on this capability. Oh disclosed that a video posted by Ahrefs was flagged by YouTube for a rather unexpected reason. The video in question displayed a snippet from a book, and within that snippet was the name “Donald Trump.”.
Following this, YouTube flagged the video under its “Election advertising in the United States” clause. Ahrefs was subsequently prompted to “Review and fix ads that violate ads policy to update the status of your campaign.”
It’s not a secret; they’ve been doing this for a long time. It’s why you see a lot of YouTubers who cover news stories black out certain words if they share snippets of a news article.
What’s weird about it is that the policy doesn’t seem to be the same for text as it is for audio. For instance, Philip DeFranco has to censor out words like “rape” from articles he puts up graphics of, but doesn’t have to censor it out as he narrates the article verbally.
Semi-related but it drives me crazy that there can be non-censored swearing in a video but the subtitles have it censored. Imagine being punished for being deaf
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Found the next captcha.
Is anyone surprised?
We knew they could do automatic captions (Don’t know why don’t offer that standard any more). We know they monitor what’s in the video, meaning the words. We know this was an automated system.
I don’t even think there’s an ounce of anything new here to anyone who has been paying attention.
And I think google offers to translate text from picture for a while? So why wouldn’t they implement this to YouTube? And of course they have to moderate the content if possible.
What has gone so wrong with all these gigantic social media companies that they had to start all collectively digging their graves in the 2020s?
I’m not any kind of economist or anything, but one theory I read is that the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank scared investors and venture capitalists into wanting a ROI ASAP.
That makes sense for some, but Facebook started it’s wrist cutting before that, and YouTube has been testing out how far they can push the line for a long time, but the last few years it seems like all of them are working double time to drive all their users away.
Money costs money for the first time since 2008.
We all died from covid three years ago.
This is actually hell.
WTF
Do they flag “Donald Trump” content regarless of the context? What bothers them, calling him a piece of shit or praising him?
From context it seems like it was a video ad and they have rules about political advertising and such.
