Topic: Content Removal

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Googers
Episode 1146 1:05:14 - 1:10:01

1146: Googers

Sundar Pichai, Content Removal Scale, Computer Science Problem

Google CEO Sundar Pichai describes the management of harmful content on YouTube as a "hard computer science problem" and a societal challenge. He notes that YouTube removed 9 million videos in a single quarter using a combination of human reviewers and AI. The discussion emphasizes the scale of the operation and the difficulty of creating frameworks for hate speech that can be applied accurately at such a massive volume.