Kids videos on YouTube are holding explicit words through auto-generated captions / Digital …

YouTube’s famous Rob the Robot has over four hundred thousand subscribers. This YouTube page is famous for its learning content for kids. However, the artificial intelligence system behind the auto-generated captions of such content can use adult language by mishearing the correct word and replacing it with an inappropriate word that sounds similar to the original one.This study, which conducted recently, demonstrated that an AI algorithm can convert a children’s educational video into nasty adult-language content. While carrying out research on this matter, over seven thousand videos were studied, belonging to over 24 different children’s channels. The result showed that 40% of the content had over thirteen hundred taboo words, while others had very inappropriate vocabulary. Common examples include replacing crab with crap and buster with bastard.Ashique KhudaBukhsh, an assistant professor at Rochester Institute, is one of the researchers behind this discovery. Ashique shared his remarks by referring to this issue as a disturbing one.Despite having a YouTube Kids option, many parents prefer the actual application. In research carried out by the Pew Research Centre, the results showed that over 80 percent parents of children under the age of eleven allowed their kids to watch YouTube content, whereas over 50%…
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