YouTube investigates reports of child abuse terms in autofill searches
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#394FZ)
Users reported seeing 's*x with your kids' and other variants after entering phrase 'how to have' on Google-owned site
YouTube is investigating reports that its autofill search features are suggesting "profoundly disturbing" child abuse terms.
Users reported seeing auto-suggestions of "s*x with your kids" and other variants after entering the phrase "how to have" in the search box on the Google-owned site. Experts have speculated that the search terms - several of which use the asterisked word "s*x" - may have been deliberately aimed at embarrassing the site, avoiding YouTube's filters for terms such as "sex".
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