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Video Sharing Goes Generative: YouTube’s upcoming AI features help producers easily reach bigger audiences.
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Video Sharing Goes Generative: YouTube’s upcoming AI features help producers easily reach bigger audiences.

YouTube is reinventing itself for the era of generative AI. The Google-owned video platform is adding generated topic ideas, backgrounds, music suggestions, and audio translations. These capabilities will be available in late 2023 or early 2024.

October 4, 20231 min read
Video Sharing Goes Generative: YouTube’s upcoming AI features help producers easily reach bigger audiences.
YouTube

Video Sharing Goes Generative: YouTube’s upcoming AI features help producers easily reach bigger audiences.

YouTube is reinventing itself for the era of generative AI. The Google-owned video platform is adding generated topic ideas, backgrounds, music suggestions, and audio translations. These capabilities will be available in late 2023 or early 2024.

October 4, 20231 min read
Troll Recognition: Twitch uses AI to flag trolls who try to avoid bans.
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Troll Recognition: Twitch uses AI to flag trolls who try to avoid bans.

A prominent online streaming service is using a machine learning model to identify trolls who try to get around being banned.

December 15, 20212 min read
Troll Recognition: Twitch uses AI to flag trolls who try to avoid bans.
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Troll Recognition: Twitch uses AI to flag trolls who try to avoid bans.

A prominent online streaming service is using a machine learning model to identify trolls who try to get around being banned.

December 15, 20212 min read
Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.
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Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.

Facebook’s content moderation algorithms block many advertisements aimed at disabled people. The social media platform’s automated systems regularly reject ads for clothing designed for people with physical disabilities.

February 24, 20212 min read
Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.
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Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.

Facebook’s content moderation algorithms block many advertisements aimed at disabled people. The social media platform’s automated systems regularly reject ads for clothing designed for people with physical disabilities.

February 24, 20212 min read
Algorithms Against Disinformation: How Facebook, Twitter, and more fought disinfo in 2020.
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Algorithms Against Disinformation: How Facebook, Twitter, and more fought disinfo in 2020.

The worldwide pandemic and a contentious U.S. election whipped up a storm of automated disinformation, and some big AI companies reaped the whirlwind.

December 23, 20202 min read
Algorithms Against Disinformation: How Facebook, Twitter, and more fought disinfo in 2020.
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Algorithms Against Disinformation: How Facebook, Twitter, and more fought disinfo in 2020.

The worldwide pandemic and a contentious U.S. election whipped up a storm of automated disinformation, and some big AI companies reaped the whirlwind.

December 23, 20202 min read
YouTube vs. Conspiracy Theorists: How YouTube uses AI to spot conspiracies
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YouTube vs. Conspiracy Theorists: How YouTube uses AI to spot conspiracies

Facing a tsunami of user-generated disinformation, YouTube is scrambling to stop its recommendation algorithm from promoting videos that spread potentially dangerous falsehoods.

September 23, 20202 min read
YouTube vs. Conspiracy Theorists: How YouTube uses AI to spot conspiracies
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YouTube vs. Conspiracy Theorists: How YouTube uses AI to spot conspiracies

Facing a tsunami of user-generated disinformation, YouTube is scrambling to stop its recommendation algorithm from promoting videos that spread potentially dangerous falsehoods.

September 23, 20202 min read
Bad Recommendations: Activists say YouTube's algorithm spreads climate disinformation.
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Bad Recommendations: Activists say YouTube's algorithm spreads climate disinformation.

YouTube is a great place to learn about new ideas — including some that have been thoroughly discredited. YouTube’s recommendation algorithm is helping spread misinformation about climate change, according to research by Avaaz, a self-funded activist group.

January 22, 20202 min read
Bad Recommendations: Activists say YouTube's algorithm spreads climate disinformation.
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Bad Recommendations: Activists say YouTube's algorithm spreads climate disinformation.

YouTube is a great place to learn about new ideas — including some that have been thoroughly discredited. YouTube’s recommendation algorithm is helping spread misinformation about climate change, according to research by Avaaz, a self-funded activist group.

January 22, 20202 min read

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