But YouTube has also faced scandals involving videos of child abuse and exploitation and nightmarish content in its YouTube Kids app, pitched as a kid-safe zone. That $170 million penalty addressed the data YouTube collects on kids without parents' consent. Kids content is one of its most-watched categories, but YouTube has come under fire for a range of scandals involving children. YouTube is the world's biggest online video source, with 2 billion monthly users - so big, in fact, it's the world's top source for kids videos too. We need to try to find every single example that we think is problematic." "So child safety, that's one where we're going to say: We need to be right all the time. different policies have to have different levels," YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said Wednesday at the Atlantic Festival in Washington, DC, after she was asked about YouTube's acceptable failure rates in rooting out policy violations. "We work hard to do this at a very high level of accuracy, and. "We continue to disable comments on hundreds of thousands of videos a day and improve our classifiers."īut after this report was published, YouTube continued to vaunt its commitment to impeccable accuracy whenever child safety is a concern.
"We've suspended comments on hundreds of millions of videos featuring minors in risky situations and implemented a classifier that helps us remove two times the number of violative comments," YouTube spokeswoman Ivy Choi said. In a statement, YouTube said it invests significantly in the teams and technologies that allow it "to provide minors and families the best protection possible." A single YouTube search for one kids-focused subject - "pretend play" - returned more than 100 videos with comments enabled, all prominently featuring infants, preschoolers and other children young enough to still have their baby teeth.Īfter CNET contacted YouTube with a list of these videos, comments were disabled on nearly half of them. It hasn't.Ĭomment-enabled videos prominently depicting young kids are still easy to find on YouTube. One problem: YouTube's machine learning was already supposed to be suspending comments on videos featuring young minors.
YouTube pledged to disable comments, notifications and personalized ads on all videos directed at children, and its machine learning will police YouTube's sprawling catalog to keep kids videos in line, the company said. The company is reengineering how it treats clips directed at children, following this month's record $170 million penalty for violating kids' data privacy. YouTube, Google's massive online video site, is about to embark on the biggest changes yet to kids videos. YouTube said this month that it plans to tighten its policies for kids-oriented videos.
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