{"id":8303,"date":"2021-02-24T14:34:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T14:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=8303"},"modified":"2021-02-24T14:35:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T14:35:04","slug":"youtube-blocks-a-chess-channel-because-of-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=8303","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Blocks a Chess Channel Because of Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube administration banned the popular channel of the Croatian chess player <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antonio_Radi%C4%87\">Antonio Radic<\/a> for publishing &#8220;harmful and dangerous&#8221; content because the artificial intelligence took the phrase &#8220;black versus white&#8221;, which was in fact about chess, as racist.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; February 24, 2021 \u2013 Reports<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Radic, known by the pen name Agadmator, runs the world&#8217;s most popular chess channel on YouTube with over a million subscribers. In June 2020, his YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=7628\">channel<\/a> was banned while presenting a chess tournament with senior coach Hikaru Nakamura. However, the channel was opened a day later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Radek is convinced that the <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=8281\">temporary<\/a> blockade is linked to the phrase &#8220;black versus white&#8221;, even though the author apparently spoke of a game of chess.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notably, YouTube&#8217;s algorithms deemed chess players&#8217; conversation harmful. At the same time, the YouTube administration has not provided explanations for the ban.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>YouTube&#8217;s moderation system is handled by both company <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=5624\">employees<\/a> and its AI algorithms, which means that the AI \u200b\u200bmay misinterpret comments if not taught to properly understand the context.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University began an investigation into the failure of artificial intelligence and simulated the program&#8217;s response to a video of chess.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The experts used a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=8118\">language<\/a> classifier to display more than 680,000 comments from five popular YouTube Chess channels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After manually verifying a sample of 1,000 comments that were classified by AI as hate speech, they found that 82% of them were misinterpreted using words such as \u201cblack,\u201d \u201cwhite,\u201d \u201cattack,\u201d and \u201cthreat\u201d commonly used in chess.<\/p>\n<p>Read also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=5376\">YouTube Temporarily Freezes Trump&#8217;s Account!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube administration banned the popular channel of the Croatian chess player Antonio Radic for publishing &#8220;harmful and dangerous&#8221; content because the artificial intelligence took the phrase &#8220;black versus white&#8221;, which was in fact about chess, as racist. Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; February 24, 2021 \u2013 Reports \u00a0 Radic, known by the pen name Agadmator, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[4286,4287,4288,4289,4290,1024,1378],"class_list":["post-8303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reports","category-uncategorized","tag-antonio-radic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-carnegie-university","tag-chess-game","tag-hikaru-nakamura","tag-ukrgate","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}