Explicit graphical content cheats its way through control algorithms

YouTube algorithms failed to detect “graphic bestiality” for several months. Even small preview images, also known as thumbnails, with explicit content were not noticed by the automated control systems. This is the result of research by “BuzzFeed”, in which YouTube is once again confronted with accusations of accepting extremely questionable publications.

By no means isolated cases

“Without having to do much searching, YouTube’s recommendation algorithm pointed BuzzFeed to dozens of accounts, each containing multiple videos whose thumbnails depicted bestiality,” the report said.

Some of these accounts also mixed explicit graphic content in thumbnails with cartoon characters that are currently very popular among children - such as Peppa Pig. Recently, YouTube came under fire because users were able to create playlists that featured both child-friendly clips and hardcore porn (pressetext reported ).

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“Start a search for 'Girl and her horse' and the platform will display over twelve million results. “The top 20 results include four videos with thumbnails that appear to show women performing sexual acts on horses,” BuzzFeed said in its report. "A video titled 'Fantastic Girl and Her Horse in My Village' is promoted with a semi-blurred thumbnail of a woman being mounted by a horse with an erection."

Allegations confirmed again

Due to the current allegations, the Google subsidiary has already taken a stand:

“These images are despicable to us and have no place on YouTube. We have a strict policy against misleading thumbnails, and the violation reported to us by BuzzFeed has been removed. We are working quickly to combat abuse on our platform. This includes developing better tools to detect inappropriate and misleading metadata and thumbnails so we can take swift action against them.”

Source: Buzzfeed / pte


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