YouTube’s poor AI training led to rise of child exploitation videos

As one rater said: “Even if a video is disturbing or violent, we can flag it but still have to say it’s high quality [if the task calls for it].” That means raters have to mark videos as “high quality” even if they have disturbing content, which can give those links a boost in search results. The problem? Child-exploitative videos found on the platform usually have good production values: they