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YouTube AI error costs creator his channel over alleged link to Japanese account

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111 points rabinovich | 1 comments | 04 Nov 25 16:36 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nalak ◴[04 Nov 25 17:05 UTC] No.45813277[source]▶
AI why? Where’s the proof that AI was involved in this?
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rabinovich ◴[04 Nov 25 17:09 UTC] No.45813329[source]▶
"A popular tech YouTuber with over 350,000 subscribers has lost his channel after YouTube’s automated systems flagged him for an alleged connection to a completely unrelated Japanese channel that received copyright strikes."
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echelon ◴[04 Nov 25 17:16 UTC] No.45813426[source]▶
That's not necessarily AI.

That could be as simple as a database lookup against flagged accounts or a simple heuristic score.

We're over-AI-ing everything.

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1. sidewndr46 ◴[04 Nov 25 17:51 UTC] No.45813818[source]▶
Having been told to implement this sort of thing at least once, it's not even heuristic. It was exactly things like "if firstName == 'Saddam' and lastName == 'Hussein' then lockAccount()". Keep in mind this was years after he was dead, for some reason the big list of prohibited persons the US circulates includes lots of dead people
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