YouTube administration banned the popular channel of the Croatian chess player Antonio Radic for publishing “harmful and dangerous” content because the artificial intelligence took the phrase “black versus white”, which was in fact about chess, as racist.
Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – February 24, 2021 – Reports
Radic, known by the pen name Agadmator, runs the world’s most popular chess channel on YouTube with over a million subscribers. In June 2020, his YouTube channel was banned while presenting a chess tournament with senior coach Hikaru Nakamura. However, the channel was opened a day later.
Radek is convinced that the temporary blockade is linked to the phrase “black versus white”, even though the author apparently spoke of a game of chess.
Notably, YouTube’s algorithms deemed chess players’ conversation harmful. At the same time, the YouTube administration has not provided explanations for the ban.
YouTube’s moderation system is handled by both company employees and its AI algorithms, which means that the AI may misinterpret comments if not taught to properly understand the context.
Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University began an investigation into the failure of artificial intelligence and simulated the program’s response to a video of chess.
The experts used a recent language classifier to display more than 680,000 comments from five popular YouTube Chess channels.
After manually verifying a sample of 1,000 comments that were classified by AI as hate speech, they found that 82% of them were misinterpreted using words such as “black,” “white,” “attack,” and “threat” commonly used in chess.
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Source: Ukrgate
