Incident 229: Content Using Bestiality Thumbnails Allegedly Evaded YouTube’s Thumbnail Monitoring System
Description: YouTube’s thumbnail monitoring system was allegedly evaded by content farms such as ones in Cambodia who spike viewership and generate ad revenue using bestiality-themed thumbnails.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: YouTube developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed YouTube users and YouTube content creators.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
229
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2018-04-23
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
Yet another issue artificial intelligence is ill-equipped to handle.
YouTube videos with thumbnails depicting women engaging in various sexual acts with horses and dogs populate top search results on the video platform, according to a repor…
There is bestiality on YouTube, and it's surprisingly easy to find. It's also surprisingly prevalent, but not in videos — in video thumbnails, some of which have racked up millions of views.
Search YouTube for "girl and her horse" and the p…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.