Jun 10, 2019 12:30:00

How do you eliminate YouTube's harmful but 'grey zone' content? Google CEO answers about

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Beginning in 2019, YouTube has taken action to ban movies that promote some layers of advantage in order to eliminate gray zone content that is 'harmful but not out of policy.' Criticism has also come out on YouTube's measures, but interviews have revealed what Google's CEO, Thunder Pichai , has a vision of.

Exclusive interview: Google CEO Sundar Pichai limits YouTube practices-Axios
https://www.axios.com/interview-google-ceo-sundar-pichai-youtube-8b2d17fe-1db6-4492-a8b0-af1b5e08697a.html

YouTube is full of content that promotes hate and discrimination, but it has long been viewed as a problem because movies and accounts can not be deleted because they are not clearly content policy violations. To address this issue, since 2019, YouTube has set community guidelines such as ' prohibit live distribution to minors only ' and ' prohibit movies that promote some layers of advantage '. I am making a revision.

However, in the United States, the conservatives insist that 'the information is manipulated about YouTube, Google, Facebook, etc. , and good news is hidden ', and while the measure of YouTube produces the panic of the right wing, it is new for the conservatives It can be a source of anger. There are pros and cons about YouTube's initiatives, but it's clear in an interview movie how Google CEO Sander Pichai, who owns YouTube, sees the situation.

Exclusive interview: Google CEO Sundar Pichai limits YouTube practices-YouTube


Interviewer Ina Fried first asked, 'What do you think when you see a movie that hurts others are uploaded to YouTube and it has been played hundreds of thousands of times?'

In response, Pichai said, 'We did not want harmful content,' said 'We removed 9 million movies from the platform in the fourth quarter of last year.' . Google evaluates content by 'quality' and puts it in the search results, but by taking a similar approach on YouTube and evaluating quality content as 'good', 'not violating the policy. It is said that it has introduced a method to avoid 'no harmful gray zone content'.

As the problem with gray zone content is both a 'computer science' and a 'social' problem, Pichai explains the need for a good framework: 'What is the hate speech in the first place?' The

'You're talking about 'Progress so far', but we see the worst every week. What I want to hear is' Youtube is right now, how are you going to YouTube? It's about giving an evaluation, ”said Mr. Fried.

'Now we are not in the shape of what we want to be, but I see this as a really difficult problem. YouTube has a scale that affects the entire Internet, and in many ways we Progress has been made '

'What we are doing now is to give authority to the source, and there is controversy, but to do fact-checking of the movie. In some cases, we're going to improve YouTube 'I'm working seriously,' said Pichai.