IMPORTANT: Due to COVID-19, we will conduct fewer human reviews to protect the health of our extended workforce...

[Michael]

"IMPORTANT: Due to COVID-19, we will conduct fewer human reviews to protect the health of our extended workforce. Unfortunately, as a result we may remove content that does not violate our Community Guidelines "

Wait what How vague can they get here, are they saying stuff that shouldnt be removed at all will get removed, so basically this is all on the AI and there wont be manual reviews for when the AI cocks up? I am wondering if there is way more to it. Cannot stand their vague as messages

 

[Min/Max Munchking]

I have 0 knowledge on the way their company workflow functions. My initial assumption would be that most of/all work can be done remotely - you don't have to be in the office to manually review the content auto-flagged by YT AI, just log into whatever admin backend they have access to internally and get it done that way.

So, either that's NOT the case and they actually need people to physically be in the same place for whatever reason (security, co-operation, group tasks...), or they're using this situation to deal with some of the "problematic" YT channels that don't fit their obviously biased left-wing agenda.

Most non-political channels shouldn't experience any problems imo, so I'm not at all concerned about my channel personally. However, I did notice my analytics showing 0 impressions for my latest video while I was sleeping, even though that video was still getting about 100 views/hour. I also noticed my channel's sub-count fluctuating wildly yesterday, bouncing between 4,675 and 4,710 subs for a while before finally continuing to grow at a rate it was growing before that.

So, while the buggy bots rule the town, we might be experiencing more weirdness than usual.

 

[Crown]

Hey Michael.

are they saying stuff that shouldnt be removed at all will get removed, so basically this is all on the AI and there wont be manual reviews for when the AI cocks up?

That is how I interpreted it.

Basically they're saying we're all going to "work" from home and let the algorithms do their thing. lmfao

 

[Jungle Explorer]

You mean the people at YouTube ACTUALLY work at some point in time!!!! Mind Blown!

 

[GiggaVega]

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