Google plans to deploy 10,000 people to identify ‘inappropriate material’

Google has announced that it plans to employ more than 10,000 people by 2018 to track down material that violates its policies. The internet giant announces the measure after criticizing inappropriate YouTube children’s videos.

Google is announcing other measures via its YouTube blog, including new moderation tools for comments under videos. In some cases, it may want to disable comments altogether. When it comes to deploying a large amount of people to track down videos, the company says people are important for things such as identifying videos and training machine learning models. Deploying this technique is said to have resulted in the closure of hundreds of accounts in recent weeks, in addition to deleting hundreds of thousands of comments.

Google also applies this approach to identifying videos with extremist content, using machine learning to help people track down videos. In this way, the company claims to remove 70 percent of such videos within eight hours of uploading.

Google also announces that it wants to sit down with advertisers and video makers to shape a stricter advertising policy. Last week it appeared that YouTube removed the advertising from two million child-unfriendly videos. It would be videos in which children can be seen in scantily clad, where people have posted shocking pedophile comments. Shortly before that, YouTube removed a large number of child-directed videos that contain child-unfriendly content.