YouTube Autocomplete suggests paedophiliac phrases
YouTube's Autocomplete search term prediction function was found to be returning 'profoundly disturbing' paedophiliac phrases, raising concerns about the c hannel's safety. Buzzfeed another other media outlets reported that the video channel's Autocomplete feature made suggestions such as 'how to have s*x with your kids' and 'how to have s*x kids' for s earches for 'how to have'. Because Autocomplete and some other YouTube search algorithms are based on popularity, commentators suggested that a coordinated effort could have caused the searches to appear higher in results than they would organically . The incident raised questions about the apparent ease with which Google's search-related algorithms could be manipulated. Autocomplete Autocomplete, or word completion, is a feature in which an application predicts the rest of a word a user is typing. In Android and iOS smartphones , this is called predictive text. Source: Wikipedia 🔗 System 🤖 YouTube Autocomplete Documents 📃 Google. How Google Autocomplete predictions work Operator: Alphabet/Google/YouTube Developer: Alphabet/Google/YouTube Country: USA Sector: Media/entertainment/sports/arts Purpose: Predict search results Technology: NLP/text analysis; Deep learning; Machine learning Issue: Accuracy/reliability; Safety Regulation ⚖️ Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule
- Date it happened
- 2017-11-01
- Organisation involved
- YouTube
- Product, system or model
- YouTube Autocomplete
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