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YouTube Can Read All Text Inside Your Videos and Flag It for Violations (stackdiary.com)
submitted 1 year ago by skilledtothegills@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[โ€“] Chozo@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not a secret; they've been doing this for a long time. It's why you see a lot of YouTubers who cover news stories black out certain words if they share snippets of a news article.

What's weird about it is that the policy doesn't seem to be the same for text as it is for audio. For instance, Philip DeFranco has to censor out words like "rape" from articles he puts up graphics of, but doesn't have to censor it out as he narrates the article verbally.

[โ€“] Willowtree2222@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Semi-related but it drives me crazy that there can be non-censored swearing in a video but the subtitles have it censored. Imagine being punished for being deaf