YouTube glitch: algorithm classifies Notre Dame brand as a 9/11 event
from David Wurm 
on April 16, 2019, 11:36 am | 🔥 popular | Write a comment
There has been a new algorithm on YouTube since the events of 9/11. This is intended to reduce fake news and provide information on relevant topics. Exactly this algorithm has now classified some videos and live streams of the Notre Dame brand as the events of 9/11.
Basically, the info box on YouTube is there to stop the spread of fake news or conspiracy theories. For this reason, an algorithm tries to recognize what is happening in a video and to look for further information on the Internet. Now this has failed embarrassingly and in yesterday's videos of the Notre-Dame-Brand displayed further information about 9/11 - that is, the attacks in 2001 on the World Trade Center in New York.
YouTube falsely detects burning twin towers of the World Trade Center in 2001
Now, in some live streams and videos showing the towers of Notre Dame surrounded by two smoke, the two towers of the World Trade Center 2001 were incorrectly recognized. Here you have key data of the event in an info box, together with a link to Encyclopedia Britannica. Google has already reacted and deactivated the relevant info boxes. In a statement it had just been stated that the two towers were wrongly recognized as those of the 2001 World Trade Center. Back then, too, they were surrounded by smoke - as was the case with the Notre-Dame fire on Monday evening.
Why in the world is @YouTube putting information about 9/11 underneath the Notre Dame livestream from @FRANCE24?
(Especially since it seems like, at least right now, ongoing renovations are the most likely cause, no indication of terror) https://t.co/A3HP36epxx pic.twitter.com/ZheCMC5pcG
- Joshua Benton (@jbenton) 15 April 2019
The poor quality and the long distance of some live streams could also have played a role, according to a Google spokesman. The algorithm then incorrectly interpreted this incorrectly and displayed the wrong info boxes. The publisher of the YouTube video or live stream also has no influence on these boxes.
Youtube admits that the system is still prone to errors. Due to the events, the algorithm of the YouTube fact checking will be revised again. But shows as a good example that algorithms are not always right either. Exactly such algorithms should also be used with the coming EU copyright reform to be introduced.
