{"id":19547,"date":"2022-07-08T08:10:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T16:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/07\/08\/news-13280\/"},"modified":"2022-07-08T08:10:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T16:10:21","slug":"news-13280","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/07\/08\/news-13280\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube AI wrongfully flags horror short &#8220;Show for Children&#8221; as suitable for children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 15:57:26 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When content creators flag one of their own videos as inappropriate for children, we expect YouTube&#8217;s AI moderator to accept this and move on. But the video streaming bot doesn&#8217;t seem to get it. Not only can it prevent creators from correcting a miscategorization, its synthetic will is also final\u2014no questions asked\u2014unless the content creator appeals.<\/p>\n<p>This is precisely what happened to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krisstraub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kris Straub<\/a>, creator of the horror series <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/LOCAL58TV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Local58TV on YouTube<\/a><\/u>. When he checked his account over the weekend, he spotted YouTube&#8217;s AI had erroneously marked his 3-minute video, <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZPdgWYB9fdw\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Show For Children&#8221;<\/a><\/u>, as &#8220;Made for kids&#8221; under its &#8220;Policy reason&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Per YouTube, &#8220;Made for kids&#8221; means:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>This content has been set as made for kids to help you comply with the Children\u2019s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and\/or other applicable laws.<\/p>\n<p>Features like personalized ads and comments are disabled on videos set as made for kids.<\/p>\n<p>Videos that are set as made for kids are more likely to be recommended alongside other kids\u2019 videos.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And YouTube did make it appear along with other child-friendly videos:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"58158\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/awareness\/2022\/07\/youtube-ai-wrongfully-flags-horror-short-show-for-children-as-suitable-for-children\/attachment\/show-for-children\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/show-for-children.png\" data-orig-size=\"1695,886\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"show-for-children\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/show-for-children-300x157.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/show-for-children-600x314.png\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/show-for-children.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58158\" width=\"848\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/show-for-children.png 1695w, https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/show-for-children-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/show-for-children-600x314.png 600w, https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/show-for-children-1536x803.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/show-for-children-630x330.png 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><figcaption>A still captured within the 3-minute clip of &#8220;Show For Children&#8221;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Straub didn&#8217;t think twice about taking to Twitter to air his disbelief:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">congrats <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@youtube<\/a> on the decision to auto-designate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LOCAL58TV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LOCAL58TV<\/a>\u2019s \u201cshow for children\u201d as FOR KIDS despite my having set it as inappropriate for kids. i also can\u2019t change it voluntarily without an *appeal* <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dnhmzL9hbi\">pic.twitter.com\/dnhmzL9hbi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kris Straub (@krisstraub) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krisstraub\/status\/1544121599963439104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Because the video is falsely marked as safe for childred, it could even end up in the &#8220;YouTube Kids&#8221; app, a separate video service that shows only filtered video clips made for kids from YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, &#8220;Show For Children&#8221; didn&#8217;t appear in YouTube Kids search results when I tested. It&#8217;s interesting to note, however, that when I do a search of &#8220;Local58TV&#8221;, the site shows me pre-filled suggestions, as you can see below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"58159\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/awareness\/2022\/07\/youtube-ai-wrongfully-flags-horror-short-show-for-children-as-suitable-for-children\/attachment\/youtube-kids-search-prefill\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/youtube-kids-search-prefill.png\" data-orig-size=\"1122,486\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"youtube-kids-search-prefill\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/youtube-kids-search-prefill-300x130.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/youtube-kids-search-prefill-600x260.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/youtube-kids-search-prefill-600x260.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/youtube-kids-search-prefill-600x260.png 600w, https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/youtube-kids-search-prefill-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/youtube-kids-search-prefill-195x85.png 195w, https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/youtube-kids-search-prefill.png 1122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fortunately, YouTube already got back to Straub and resolved the matter. The company also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krisstraub\/status\/1544703806532792320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">allowed<\/a> him to mark his video as &#8220;not made for kids&#8221; when this feature was previously greyed out.<\/p>\n<p>Staud left a question the YouTube team has yet to reply to.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">thank you! do you have an explanation as to why a video that the creator marked \u201cnot for kids\u201d would be reviewed by youtube, who then say \u201cactually we think it is for kids\u201d ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZOIfX4pwNC\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZOIfX4pwNC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kris Straub (@krisstraub) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krisstraub\/status\/1544703499186814976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>I think we already know the answer to that.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/awareness\/2022\/07\/youtube-ai-wrongfully-flags-horror-short-show-for-children-as-suitable-for-children\/\">YouTube AI wrongfully flags horror short &#8220;Show for Children&#8221; as suitable for children<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/awareness\/2022\/07\/youtube-ai-wrongfully-flags-horror-short-show-for-children-as-suitable-for-children\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 15:57:26 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Show for Children&#8221; is most definitely not to be shown to children.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/awareness\/2022\/07\/youtube-ai-wrongfully-flags-horror-short-show-for-children-as-suitable-for-children\/\">YouTube AI wrongfully flags horror short &#8220;Show for Children&#8221; as suitable for children<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[11113,15496,26881,26882,26883,26884,2593,26885,26886],"class_list":["post-19547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-awareness","tag-kris-staub","tag-local58tv","tag-moderation-bot","tag-show-for-children","tag-youtube","tag-youtube-ai","tag-youtube-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}