Google drops firm reviewing YouTube videos. Bye bye ZeroChaos
 

So Google is going more hardcore conservative now I'm an effort to appease big multinational corporations. First step: Fire the video company with the most liberal vidro raters (censors)!

?We?re working to ensure we have the right vendor partners and processes in place as we increase our efforts to stop the abuse of our platforms, and to keep our users safe,? says Ty Sheppard, a Google spokesman.

"As recently as May, ZeroChaos told employees their contracts could continue into 2019, according to an email reviewed by WIRED."

"The workers' ratings serve two purposes: they classify inappropriate content, and those classifications help educate Google?s AI, a technology that will eventually flag sensitive or offensive content on its own, without human help."

https://www.wired.com/story/google-d...outube-videos/


EARLIER THIS YEAR, after multiple reports that ads appeared with YouTube videos promoting hate and terrorism, several big brands, including Walmart, PepsiCo, and Verizon quit the video company's ad network. In response, YouTube parent Google increased both the number of "ads quality raters"?the people who spend hours watching YouTube looking for violence, profanity, even death?and the volume of videos those raters viewed.

These raters are temporary workers employed by companies contracted by Google, and Google recently dropped one of its larger contractors, ZeroChaos. ?Effective 7/31/2017 9pm PST, your current assignment with ZeroChaos will come to an end,? an email sent to employees reads. ?Thank you for all your hard work in connection with the Google Quality Rating Project. Unfortunately, Google has terminated the Quality Rating Project that ZeroChaos was managing, and as a result no further opportunities are available. We appreciate your commitment and dedication.?
The workers' ratings serve two purposes: they classify inappropriate content, and those classifications help educate Google?s AI, a technology that will eventually flag sensitive or offensive content on its own, without human help.

It?s unclear whether Google has moved more of the rating work to other contractors or its AI. In a blog post Tuesday, Google said that ?over 75 percent of the videos we?ve removed for violent extremism over the past month were taken down before receiving a single human flag.?

Google doesn?t say how many temporary workers it employs for its ads rating efforts (for ?confidentiality? reasons, according to a spokesperson), but the number could exceed 10,000, according to one estimate. Other contractors include Leapforce, Lionbridge, and Appen, but comments on discussion boards used by workers suggest ZeroChaos paid higher wages.

This kind of work tends to attract people who prefer more flexible working conditions, such as workers near retirement age, stay-at-home parents, and individuals with physical disabilities, many of whom have limited employment opportunities.
?I have two autistic kids and although I have several eggs, this was my biggest chunk of money, and I need it,? one ad rater said in a forum.

?I am at the end of my rope. I don?t know what I am going to do for money since my partner is making above the threshold for unemployment. I can?t believe this,? said another. ?I don?t know how we are going to find work again, because if we all lost our job today, what are we going to do about oversaturating the other companies??

As recently as May, ZeroChaos told employees their contracts could continue into 2019, according to an email reviewed by WIRED. Some who were training for the program, meanwhile, waited for months to start working at ZeroChaos, only to be told there would be no work for them. ?The company led me on for six months, only to tell me that Google pulled the contract,? says one ad rater, who showed WIRED a February email that said he had been accepted to the program, and seven subsequent emails, each delaying his start date. ?The loss of jobs for such a large number of people?particularly by a company that brags about its liberal ideology, ?Don?t be Evil??deserves public attention,? says another.

?We?re working to ensure we have the right vendor partners and processes in place as we increase our efforts to stop the abuse of our platforms, and to keep our users safe,? says Ty Sheppard, a Google spokesman. "We work with many other vendor partners in this space and opportunities at these employers will grow." ZeroChaos declined to comment. The company tells workers on their first day that their employment is at-will and ZeroChaos can terminate their contracts.

To some, the abrupt end to the contract highlights the differences between Google?s full-time employees, who have secure and well-paying jobs, and a hidden workforce that makes its products run more smoothly. ?For some, tech can be incredibly lucrative and rewarding," says Sarah T. Roberts, a media studies scholar at UCLA who studies commercial content moderation. But, she says, many others "don?t fall into those types of categories, and are more subject to a kind of labor precariousness.?

The annual salary for a software engineer at Google is $127,000, according to the workplace website Glassdoor. Meanwhile, ZeroChaos' ad raters earned $15 per hour for up to 29 hours a week; they did not receive raises or paid time off, and signed a confidentiality agreement that continues after their employment ends.

Tech platforms host enormous amounts of content?YouTube alone sees 400 hours of content uploaded every minute?and more content translates to more revenue for these companies. ?These platforms don?t exist for goodwill or the public interest, they are for profit,? says Roberts. For now, these moderators are still necessary, a human filter to watch, assess, and delete the worst of it so others don't have to see it.

They need to get rid of VEVO next :2cents

it's amazing they don't have the technology to review videos by ai

This is deliberate and wilful misinformation. Google routinely shuts down "conservative" videos, comments and even viewpoints among its employees.



OP, please unlock your sexuality from Jewish minority politics. You'll see "hate" in an entirely different light.

wait... what?? again, this is the complete opposite of what is really happening :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh holy shit you're too much!

on this topic i have a lot of experience myself, and literally the opposite is happening in practice, no matter what articles or any other total bullshit is being spread.

First social justice extremist filter went up in march.

Stricter, second social justice extremist filter went up just several days ago in an official statement by Youtube.

Right now Youtube is under total corporate leftwing establishment control banning and censoring anyone who dares to even crack jokes about it, let alone be seriously critical of it. It has become a freedom of speech loathing safe space contrary to what the users and viewers wish.

It's obvious now that OP is on the payroll. Would explain his boardwhore-ness.

They've surely got people across a wide spectrum of industry, hobbyist and interest forums, shaping the narrative. Think of how quickly Facebook spread by "word of mouth".

Bunch of googgly goop. Google wants to protect its ad revenue. That is their prerogative -- YouTube is not a public utility -- YouTube is part of a publicly traded stock corporation.

Not enough hate speech, alt-right crap, explicit sex -- GTFO and go somewhere else -- Google doesn't care about your 'rights' that is just a bunch of horse crap ...

Google cares about selling ads and pleasing the widest range of people -- guess what -- you ain't them ...

^ wants a gold star with his Merchant ID Number :2 cents:

Perhaps, while performing quality control, Google was not happy with the conservative ratings?

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Ray, I don't know how old you are, but the younger generations aren't making excuses for Google.

They know what Google did to us, and they've never even set foot in this industry. "The internet is a cesspool" = Gentiles making money from it.

YouTube kept a video up of a person drinking boiling water. So a stupid 8-yard old child was dared to do it and died. Parents didn't teach the girl that boiling water causes pain. The video helped cause her death. Her parents should sue YouTube & Google so they realize more censors are needed.

i noticed an error in your sig.

it seems that you are in fact, stupid.

Coming from you, this means nothing. You don't like my post? Tough shit. It's a free world and I can say what I choose when voicing an opinion.

But if calling people names gives you a hard-on, that in itself tells a lot about your character.

Ignore is your friends. Use it or fuck off. Opinions from assholes are nothing but spewed shit.

I apologize for upsetting you. I was simply pointing out a factual error in your sig.

The Squealer nic hates on everyone lately, he's alt-right and defends Trump at every turn but says he's "Independent". If The Squealer thinks your not a Trump supporter he'll attack you no matter what and feel you don't deserve respect.

Don't take it personal just block him. Your experience here will not diminish doing in so :winkwink:

Always nice to get a mention from the boards most well known pathological liar.

You never realized how you lose your potency being a 24/7 hater, resulting in your current GFY impotence. You get farther being a lover than a hater 💋

It's their platform so they can do with as they please. Or as the advertisers, please. If the new conservative approach means less view then they will revert. If it means no change and gets rid of the videos that are objectional. Then it's good.

I guess you didn't bother to read the article.

this discussion/thread is moot because there is no new conservative approach. On the contrary. If anything this is a perfect example of "fake news".