YouTube thinks Notre Dame burning down is footage of 9/11
by Rob Beschizza from on (#4D753)
This ain't it, chief.
Previously: Fire at Notre Dame cathedral
UPDATE: Ryan Broderick points out the plain fact: YouTube's little truth widget is algorithmically-generated fake news.
I'm not sure there's a better metaphor for the state of the tech industry right now than an American social platform slapping an algorithmically-generated related article about an American terror attack on to a live stream about a completely unrelated French news story. pic.twitter.com/KLWGlg5NEc
- Ryan Broderick (@broderick) April 15, 2019