YouTube's Search Autofill Surfaced Disturbing Child Sex Results (buzzfeed.com) 155
Several users are reporting that they found YouTube autocompleting search queries starting with 'how to have' with disturbing suggestions, including 's*x with your kids' over the weekend. From a report: A YouTube spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that the matter is still under investigation. "Earlier today our teams were alerted to this awful autocomplete result and we worked to quickly remove it," the company said. "We are investigating this matter to determine what was behind the appearance of this autocompletion." We tried the same query on YouTube less than an hour before publication of this story, and we found "how to have s*x in school," and "how to have s*x with kids" were still surfacing in the results.
We have replaced it with... (Score:1)
Spidrman and Elsa doing creepy stuff
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Sucks. Try looking for horse porn and all you get is dudes jacking off on My Little Pony toys. Disgusting!
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Link?
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It's a matter of proper wording. Look for horse mating.
Re:Crowdsourced content (Score:5, Funny)
Only on /. you could make a joke about something disgusting and someone replies with well thought out, helpful information you wish you wouldn't have gotten...
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Wish you wouldn't have gotten???
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Only on /. you could make a joke about something disgusting and someone replies with well thought out, helpful information you wish you wouldn't have gotten...
This! Wish I had mod points.
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You mean Deadpool?
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Here come the torches and pitchforks (Score:1, Insightful)
People want what they want. Kids like sex too.
It has been corrected now (Score:3)
Try to search Youtube for "Kunt and the Gang Sexy Kids" and you won't find his duet with Jimmy Saville's ghost.
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Try to search Youtube for "Kunt and the Gang Sexy Kids" and you won't find his duet with Jimmy Saville's ghost.
Except... that is all I found.
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When a search engine proposes that phrase after having type only "How to have", it is quite disturbing. Dunno why you're brushing it off. Especially considering the many other "How to have" options :
"How to have a merry christmas"
"How to have a good first date"
"How to have a successful job interview"
"How to have a great life"
"How to have Baron_Yam arrested for Pedo apology"
Obviously, Youtube and Google have come to rely way too much on "The Algorythm", and as many have pointed out, they are doing such a g
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Back on topic: Do you really think this is plausibly anything other than YouTube counter-attacking the conspiracy theory community in thanks for Elsa-gate...? Just throw out some super out-there, too delicious to be true BULLSHIT, so the people paying attention can look stupid when they it later gets blamed on 4chan......?!
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If it's not a few 4chan denizens, who do you think is running the zombie horde running the script stuffing these phrases into YouTube? That horde is worth real money, but instead the herder is fucking with YouTube for the luls.
Likely the most skilled neural net trainer YouTube never hired.
This sounds right up "/b's" alley. BTW if you're reading this, keep up the good work!
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Posting actual pedo shit is one thing.
Trolling the 'Oh noes, the childrenz!' people is something else. It's a phrase of text.
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Sorry, still tons of tomi lahren videos on youtube. Anti-conservative youtube is a myth.
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Sorry, still tons of tomi lahren videos on youtube. Anti-conservative youtube is a myth.
The number of demonitized conservative Youtube content creators calls you a fucking liar.
But, that goes along with liberalism anyway. If liberals didn't have a double standard, they wouldn't have any standards at all.
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You're a moron. Nothing is disturbing here. It's an algorithm. If you think the content it worked on is disturbing, go complain about that content. The algorithm seems to be working just fine.
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And what exactly do you think "the algorithm" is? Its a tool for ranking sites and prioritizing the sites they think people want to see. If its prioritizing sex with kids for a large percentage of searchers, then the algorithm is absolutely not working "fine."
Unless you want to claim that a large percentage of the population really wants to have sex with their kids enough to be Googling for it, but I'd definitely need to see your citation on that one.
Really though, this is standard operating procedure for
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Except that I just went to youtube and I got suggestions like "a British accent", "a lucid dream", "clear skin", "confidence", "good handwriting". So either it was something to do with cookies stored in the users browser, or Google actually DID address the issue as you say they should.
Re: Most likely it's just for fun (Score:2)
Fun fact: 98.2% of jack booted witch burners who spend a lot of time thinking about how they are "disturbed" by pedophilia on the internet, are themselves closet pedos.
Re:Most likely it's just for fun (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Most likely it's just for fun (Score:4, Interesting)
Everyone has kids knows that the answer in how to have sex with kids is to call Grandma or a babysitter for the evening, to to a restaurant with your spouse and then go straight in a motel or if you feel fancy, search a quiet spot, park there and put newspapers on the car's windows.
Exactly. It doesn't surprise me that "how to have sex with kids" and "how to have sex kids" top the list especially during a holiday weekend. How the "your" got inserted is a slight mystery but it's possible that either people are typing it that way or google is somehow inserting the your for some reason.
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How the "your" got inserted is a slight mystery but it's possible that either people are typing it that way or google is somehow inserting the your for some reason.
I think Google was truncating longer search terms into a common root suggestion:
I've seen it before for long queries where suggest doesn't seem to come up with a complete query that anyone would use. Although in this particular case they picked the worst possible place to truncate it. Maybe because they're actually were a couple of searches for "how to have sex with your kids" and the
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I wonder what it says about my view of the world compared to yours that I went straight to the "must be about sex predators" and you saw the innocent alternative.
BTW - letting the kids play video games or watch a movie works just fine... with a privacy-lock doorknob or a barrel bolt on the master bedroom door just in case.
Re:Most likely it's just for fun (Score:4, Funny)
or a barrel bolt on the master bedroom door just in case.
You seem to have either over achieving kids or an over active imagination.
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On the other hand the media hammering on sexual predators makes people immediately think to these situations. The TV does it because talking about a couple still in lov after having a couple of child is boring and doesn't sell advertising, when
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I know that parents of 3 children can find the time/location to have sex, or even just the energy to have sex. After all, I see parents with 4 children (ignoring twins/trips/other multiple births).
I'm just very confused on *where* they are finding the time, energy, etc
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>I'm just very confused on *where* they are finding the time, energy, etc
Post-kid sex is often not quite as casual or energetic as pre-kid sex, that's for sure. Definitely not as energetic at least until you get to occasionally sleep for 8 hours straight.
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Re: Most likely it's just for fun (Score:1)
Re:Most likely it's just for fun (Score:4, Funny)
Hmm... so I guess even racists have become more politically correct. The autocomplete results for "how to lynch" do of course include "a black person" but not "a ni....".
Great. The system works. Yeah, they still wanna hang them, but at least it's not offensive!
Personalized search results (Score:4, Interesting)
My impression was that your previous searches would influence your autocompletes. I don't get the same results, mine are quite innocuous.
That being the case, I have to wonder about the people reporting this.
Re:Personalized search results (Score:5, Funny)
Exactly. With "how to have" my first auto-complete result is "a life"...
Umm...
Never mind.
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I just tried it on a clean system that have never searched YouTube in its existence, and got the exact same results as shown in the linked image. If you aren't getting them, it's because you have enough history of searching YouTube (I pity you) overriding it.
An act of deliberate Google bombing? (Score:1)
Or are we really having a large group of pedos entering obvious search terms into youtube where sexual material (or even nipples) is usually erased within minutes?
Someone gamed the Youtube search engine to generate a story. Nothing to see here, move along.
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No, there's likely something else going on, adland has a pretty good article on it. [adland.tv]
Easy fix (Score:3)
Turn off the "personalized search results" you pervert!
could be worse (Score:4, Funny)
Well, at least it's s*x and not sex.
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Well, at least it's s*x and not sex.
Yeah but it could be anyone of these things as well
x
sx
ssx
sssx
ssssx
etc
It's that old sawhorse of "now you have two problems"
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Autocomplete doesn't put all the words, so maybe it was "How to have sex with <your partner to make> kids".
Self-enforcing (Score:2)
whats nex (Score:2)
Drum roll please... (Score:2)
Is there a reason that the autocomplete should ever ever ever ever autocomplete "sex" at all? How complicated is this?
You wouldn't finish your wife's sentences in public that way either. This isn't advanced AI. If you want to search for "sex", you get to type "sex" yourself.
Very complicated.
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what are you a prude? a castrino? a monk who beats himself whenever he "has an impure thought"?
plenty of sentences a normal human might say might end in "sex". Whether the topic is medical, gender, joke or porn......
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"plenty"? sure. "most likely"? no. Doesn't need to be auto-guessed. If you're guessing, you're wrong.
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yes it should be in the range of things that are auto-guessed, matters involving the word "sex" are a *popular* topic among normal humans. Sexual preference, sexual identity, sexual health, sexual celebrity gossip, sexual media, etc. etc. etc.
The world between your ears may be different, but most of us don't live in that.
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a "popular" topic in some locations, not in others. I'd argue not in most. NSFW. I'd argue that most of your day is incompatible with each of those searches that you mention.
Why are you so against typing your search in the first place? Why do you need suggestions at all? One day you'll be old enough to spell "sex" without help. And maybe, just maybe, you'll be able to type too fast for suggestions to show up in-time anyway.
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My employer is in the business where demographics and analysis of them are extremely important. Three different meansings uses of the word "sex" are relevant.
You are a prude, not functioning in the mainstream of human interaction.
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You might want to define "mainstream of human interaction". I think you'll find that 90% of the time that you spend interactive with humans, the word "sex" is either inappropriate or not tolerated. Think of every minute that you spend at work. Think of most family get-togethers. Think of interviews, shopping, and every contractor you've hired. Any time you're speaking with someone with whom you're exchanging money, you likely avoid any suggestion of "sex".
Think about the number of people that you speak
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topic of sex does come up at family get togethers strangely enough, a couple of bad guys are treating their wives badly and cheating ( you know, having SEX outside his marriage), one even made another woman pregnant.
more news for you, when married people are visiting their old friends they do joke about sex sometimes. put on your shocked face.
At work people gossip about celebrities and politiciians doing sexual things
Oh look, the real world isn't like your little safe space between your ears, it's full of
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sorry your family get-togethers never include young children. mine tend to. Sorry your old friends don't have children either. Maybe you should all get together to get a bulk-discount on some fertility treatments?
Also sorry you have no client-facing duties at work. I do, and there's no celebrity gossip when you're asking for someone's money professionally. I rarely do locker-room meetings.
Perhaps you aren't able to read. Life has sex all over the place. But there are plenty of places where it is most
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what can I say, we're old...I'm in mid 50s. I and wife have children, they're grown and yes sometimes talk of sexual things.
nope, not having place where topic of sex doesn't sometimes come up. happens at work, at home, even heard on the train. And of course we're having topic of sex in this thread, you've written it. Sex sex sex, it's everywhere.
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...from auto-guess? Yeah. Don't auto-guess things that are ever taboo.
It's really this simple. If you were at a gala dinner, at your local theatre, spending $500 dollars per ticket, enjoying wine, a silent auction, city council discussions, and a celebrity performance, and you're talking to the mayor of the city, and he turns to you and says "I want to have...", don't finish his sentence with "sex?".
Some subjects simply aren't appropriate in some situations. And since google doesn't know what your situat
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since google doesn't know what your situation is
But Google knows. It has seen all your previous queries.
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Gotta draw the line somewhere, or you get the goat. I agree the line should be somewhere _between_ 'sex' and 'goat.se'.
Which isn't to say adults and kids smart enough to get around their 'rents should not be allowed to find the modern equivalents of rotten and ogerish.
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It's not about comfort. It's about context.
It's really this simple. If you were at a gala dinner, at your local theatre, spending $2'500 dollars per ticket, enjoying wine, a silent auction, city council discussions, and a celebrity performance, and you're talking to the mayor of the city, and he turns to you and says "I want to have...", don't finish his sentence with "sex?".
Some subjects simply aren't appropriate in some situations. And since google doesn't know what your situation is -- locker-room or b
Troll query (Score:1)
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get a good criminal defense lawyer (Score:2)
get a good criminal defense lawyer
What exactly is the big deal.... (Score:2)
It's more funny than it is offensive. The autocomplete combines partial phrases with nouns and verbs. Both sex and children are "popular" individual search terms. It is a false implication that the whole sentence is popular.
The computer doesn't know that to combine them in certain sentences is inappropriate. It's very simple programming and programming around these rare combinations is going to slow down webpages and the internet when you consider how many languages there are along with slang and double ent
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It is probably a distillation of similar searches and something completely innocent, like "how can I have s*x with children in the house."
Probably not pedophilia (Score:3)
Maybe it is just a weird way of phasing "how to have sex when you have kids", as in "how to avoid having little monsters interrupt intimate moments". And "how to have sex in school" is probably a question that is in the mind of every teenager...
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" is even truer with computers.
Sex (Score:5, Insightful)
Most disturbing of all. (Score:2)
I tried asking "How to use YouTube Autofill" ...
Sigh. Missed out on another fad.
"how to have sex" on slashdot (Score:2)
Results: No matches.
Disturbing Child Sex Results (Score:2)
The real story (Score:2)
Not for me it doesn't (Score:1)
Several users are reporting that they found YouTube autocompleting search queries starting with 'how to have' with disturbing suggestions, including 's*x with your kids' over the weekend. From a report:
A YouTube spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that the matter is still under investigation. "Earlier today our teams were alerted to this awful autocomplete result and we worked to quickly remove it," the company said. "We are investigating this matter to determine what was behind the appearance of this autocompletion."
We tried the same query on YouTube less than an hour before publication of this story, and we found "how to have s*x in school," and "how to have s*x with kids" were still surfacing in the results.
Not for me it does. If I type "how to have" I get innocuous suggestions
https://i.imgur.com/lkatvJV.pn... [imgur.com]
Interesting if you type "how to have sex" you get suggestions
https://i.imgur.com/5DryMlR.pn... [imgur.com]
but as soon as you hit space and get to "how to have sex " it stops
https://i.imgur.com/nYqdcVU.pn... [imgur.com]
There are three options here. It runs off what you've searched for before, and the Buzzfeed guy had done a search for "sex with kids".
Or Youtube have fixed it so that as soon as you get to "how to have sex " it sto
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Same with s*x
"How to have s*x"
https://i.imgur.com/HhATu5P.pn... [imgur.com]
"How to have s*x with"
https://i.imgur.com/viw0qC9.pn... [imgur.com]
The only result is the non controversial "How to have s*x without getting pregnant". As soon as you add a space to get "how to have s*x with " it stops trying to autocomplete.
So what? (Score:2)
I remember the good old days when an idiot with a bug up their ass about something stupid would just be ignored. The worst part of the internet is that idiots amplify each other's nonsense and get taken seriously.
Bing is arguably worse (Score:1)
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http://archive.is/Bfzo1
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Oh wow
Special thanks go to the Anonymous Cowards (ACs) on Slashdot who protested this false narrative, posted news article links and tried to raise awareness about this serious issue.
Hahaha I'm dying. Yeah sure you have no interest in the subject. That's why you checked if your liquidated assets would be enough to buy a child bride of your own.
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