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.”
old news. the transcript commonly mistakes words in videos for swears or racial slurs and gets people demonetized
I think this is more of an official acknowledgment and them exploring how it works, not so much “breaking news” for those of us in the know. I’d imagine most people are probably unaware of this.
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.
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.
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.
