YouTube recommended videos of underage girls after users watched erotic videos, research finds.
said watching erotic videos and following the platform’s recommendations can eventually lead to videos of children.at Harvard University were examining YouTube’s impact in Brazil. They said users who watched erotic videos might be recommended videos of women dressing as young girls, and eventually may be recommended videos of “girls as young as 5 or 6” wearing bathing suits or getting dressed, the report said.
According to the piece, YouTube’s recommendation system changed to no longer link some of the revealing videos together, but the company told the New York Times it was “probably a result of routine tweaks to its algorithms, rather than a deliberate policy change.” YouTube also said that turning off its recommendation system on videos of children would “hurt ‘creators’ who rely on those clicks” but did say it would limit recommendations on videos it deems putting children at risk, the report said.detailing some of the steps it has taken in recent years to protect children including"limiting recommendations of borderline content to include videos featuring minors in risky situations.
The Berkman Klein Center didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on whether the researchers will be publishing anything on the discovery.
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