YouTube is starting tests with a new filter system for its video platform. aim greatly reduce the amount of spam commentsincluding fraud and scam.
The news was found by tech youtuber Marques Brownlee, one of the few creators to complain about the rise of such comments, and was automatically and mass-published on popular videos.
The new system is a box that can be controlled by the youtuber in the channel settings, asking “Increased stiffness” regarding the moderation system. This option is currently experimental and should only be available to certain user groups.
This “Increase precision” content moderation tool is a new experiment on YouTube that has been in the works for some time. We hope you can do some damage to this spam we’ve been seeing a lot lately. pic.twitter.com/KVkjVCOUKZ
—Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) April 8, 2022
“Hopefully that could somehow influence these comments that we’ve been seeing a lot lately,” says Brownlee. For now, it hasn’t had time to feel any effect from the new configuration.
getting worse
Linus Sebastian of tech channel Linus Tech Tips has also complained about possibly fake offers containing health products or games that are “worsening by the day” and bypassing the platform’s current moderation system – which, while it doesn’t seem like enough anymore, is huge and uses both. machine learning and human review to get better and better.
In a note to the website AngerYouTube claims to be always adapting its own moderation system with more powerful filters that have been in continuous development since 2016.
Source: Tec Mundo
