Google AI Struggles to Keep Mosque Shooting Clip Off YouTube
- Internet giant has said AI will help it block violent content
- Human trickery out-foxes machine learning, image recognition
Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
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YouTube has tried to keep violent and hateful videos off its service for years. The Google unit hired thousands of human moderators and put some of the best minds in artificial intelligence on the problem.
On Thursday, that was no match for a gunman, who used social media to broadcast his killing spree in a New Zealand mosque, and legions of online posters tricking YouTube’s software to spread the attacker’s video.