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YouTube Can Read All Text Inside Your Videos and Flag It for Violations (stackdiary.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sam Oh, the Vice President of Marketing at Ahrefs, recently shed light on this capability. Oh disclosed that a video posted by Ahrefs was flagged by YouTube for a rather unexpected reason. The video in question displayed a snippet from a book, and within that snippet was the name "Donald Trump.".

Following this, YouTube flagged the video under its "Election advertising in the United States" clause. Ahrefs was subsequently prompted to "Review and fix ads that violate ads policy to update the status of your campaign."

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is anyone surprised?

We knew they could do automatic captions (Don't know why don't offer that standard any more). We know they monitor what's in the video, meaning the words. We know this was an automated system.

I don't even think there's an ounce of anything new here to anyone who has been paying attention.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And I think google offers to translate text from picture for a while? So why wouldn't they implement this to YouTube? And of course they have to moderate the content if possible.