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Youtube Targetting Cryptocurrency Channels?

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Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 29, 2019, 05:00:56 am ---
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on December 28, 2019, 11:21:17 am ---
--- Quote from: nali on December 28, 2019, 11:09:44 am ---Looks like YT have now admitted their mistake...

YouTube admits error over Bitcoin video purge
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50924494


--- Quote ---YouTube said in a statement that it had "made the wrong call" and confirmed that any content mistakenly removed would be restored.

"With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call," it said.

"When it's brought to our attention that a video has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it."

It said there had been no changes to its polices, and insisted there would be "no penalty" to any channels that were affected by the incident.
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There are so many lies in their statement it's not funny.

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They still don't say what triggered this targeted purge of crypto content.
That leaves us to ponder that it's either:
1) AI that has gone beserk on it's own with no input from humans. If so, why and how did it do so?
2) AI that has gone beserk based on some form of input or change from humans. If so, the question still remains why target crypto?
3) It was a high up policy decision made either internally, or forced on them by external actors. Cue the conspiracy theory music. If this is the case then my guess would be that external actors want pressure put on crypto and Youtube said "We'll try it and see what the backlash is". Once they saw the extreme heat, they backed down.

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On the AI going berserk, I cannot accept that a company the size of youtube and the dollars involved that an AI would be permitted to, and for such a sustained period, delete so many vids and channels without intervention during the process.

BravoV:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on December 29, 2019, 05:05:41 am ---On the AI going berserk, I cannot accept that a company the size of youtube and the dollars involved that an AI would be permitted to, and for such a sustained period, delete so many vids and channels without intervention during the process.

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The other side of the coin, Youtube has grown so big and basically own the market, that they can simply say ... "DONT LIKE US ? TAKE A HIKE !!" ... as simple as that.

magic:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on December 29, 2019, 05:05:41 am ---On the AI going berserk, I cannot accept that a company the size of youtube and the dollars involved that an AI would be permitted to, and for such a sustained period, delete so many vids and channels without intervention during the process.

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I doubt it too and several of the people linked here complained that they appealed their strikes and haven't received an answer from humans for weeks. I take it was "wrong call" rather than "mistake", i.e. some not quite thought through internal policy change, perhaps under external pressure on "inspiration" or simply a test to see how much they can get away with in controlling this particular genre >:D

Either that or Youtube has reached AI singularity and computers are running the show now while humans can only try to save face and hide their lack of control behind doublespeak excuses ;D

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on December 29, 2019, 05:05:41 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 29, 2019, 05:00:56 am ---
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on December 28, 2019, 11:21:17 am ---
--- Quote from: nali on December 28, 2019, 11:09:44 am ---Looks like YT have now admitted their mistake...

YouTube admits error over Bitcoin video purge
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50924494


--- Quote ---YouTube said in a statement that it had "made the wrong call" and confirmed that any content mistakenly removed would be restored.

"With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call," it said.

"When it's brought to our attention that a video has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it."

It said there had been no changes to its polices, and insisted there would be "no penalty" to any channels that were affected by the incident.
--- End quote ---

--- End quote ---

There are so many lies in their statement it's not funny.

--- End quote ---

They still don't say what triggered this targeted purge of crypto content.
That leaves us to ponder that it's either:
1) AI that has gone beserk on it's own with no input from humans. If so, why and how did it do so?
2) AI that has gone beserk based on some form of input or change from humans. If so, the question still remains why target crypto?
3) It was a high up policy decision made either internally, or forced on them by external actors. Cue the conspiracy theory music. If this is the case then my guess would be that external actors want pressure put on crypto and Youtube said "We'll try it and see what the backlash is". Once they saw the extreme heat, they backed down.

--- End quote ---

On the AI going berserk, I cannot accept that a company the size of youtube and the dollars involved that an AI would be permitted to, and for such a sustained period, delete so many vids and channels without intervention during the process.

--- End quote ---

Yep, I'm being very generous by even suggesting that's a possibility.
Of course someone fiddled with the controls behind the curtain here. The question is who and why.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: BravoV on December 29, 2019, 08:33:27 am ---
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on December 29, 2019, 05:05:41 am ---On the AI going berserk, I cannot accept that a company the size of youtube and the dollars involved that an AI would be permitted to, and for such a sustained period, delete so many vids and channels without intervention during the process.

--- End quote ---

The other side of the coin, Youtube has grown so big and basically own the market, that they can simply say ... "DONT LIKE US ? TAKE A HIKE !!" ... as simple as that.

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But they still keep up the appearance and give lip service to caring. Watch any of Susan Alphabet's recent "interviews" with creators.

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