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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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[–] bappity@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

old news. the transcript commonly mistakes words in videos for swears or racial slurs and gets people demonetized

[–] adroidBalloon@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

I think this is more of an official acknowledgment and them exploring how it works, not so much “breaking news” for those of us in the know. I’d imagine most people are probably unaware of this.

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

I don't think this is referring to the audio transcript, this looks like youtube's running the videos through an OCR to read text in the actual video