Google AI struggles to keep mosque shooting clip off YouTube


A view of the dome of Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 17, 2019. REUTERS/Edgar Su

YouTube has tried to keep violent and hateful videos off its service for years. The Google unit hired thousands of human moderators and put some of the best minds in artificial intelligence on the problem. 

On March 14, that was no match for a gunman, who used social media to broadcast his killing spree in a New Zealand mosque, and legions of online posters tricking YouTube’s software to spread the attacker’s video. 

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