SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s YouTube is hiring more humans to teach machines how to think like humans.
In
a blog post from Susan Wojcicki, YouTube’s chief executive, the company
said on Monday that it planned to add thousands of human reviewers to
remove videos that violated its guidelines while teaching computers how
to spot troublesome videos.
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YouTube
plans to have 10,000 people dedicated to reviewing videos in 2018 —
though it would not to say how many workers it has doing that job now.
The
hiring spree comes YouTube is mired, yet again, in controversy over
failing to properly police content uploaded to its site. The latest
batch of problematic videos, reported earlier by The Times of London,
are videos of children in states of undress, with comments from
pedophiles attracted to the content. Those videos also had
advertisements running with them, prompting marketers to pull their ads.
Last
week, YouTube said it took down more than 150,000 videos featuring
children and disabled comments for more than 625,000 videos. It also
kicked several hundred YouTube users off the platform for posting
“predatory comments on videos featuring minors.”
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