YouTube has improve spam and abuse detection on comments and live chat, introduce enhancements to its video-sharing platform. This update comes at a time when social media companies are facing increase scrutiny over their inability to limit spam, harassment, and abuse that is believe to be hurting the mental health of users exposed to the platform.
YouTube has introduce an improvement to its mechanisms that detects spam in comments, and bots in live chats.
As YouTube has also introduce a new feature that will notify users with a warning when detect for violating the platform’s Community Guidelines.
According to YouTube’s official support page, YouTube has introduce improvements to its machine-learning models that are now equip to detect advance spamming techniques utilise by malicious users.
YouTube also confirm that it has remove 1.1 billion spam comments in the first half of 2022 alone.
YouTube has also improve its automate bot detection systems which will be deploy during live chats to prevent any negative impacts.
The most important update from YouTube includes the introduction of a new mechanism for comment removals, warnings, and timeouts.
This new feature will notify users with a warning when an abusive comment post from their account is detect of having violate YouTube’s Community Guidelines.
Repeat offenders will temporarily be suspend from being able to comment for up to 24 hours, confirm YouTube’s support page post.
These tools are currently limit to users commenting in English.
YouTube is planning to expand these capabilities to other languages as well in the coming months.
A tweet from the company’s official TeamYouTube handle announce the introduction of a new feature for creators that will allow them to view the estimated time of completion for uploads made on the platform in SD, HD, or 4K video quality.
more info, less guessing⏳
— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) December 13, 2022
⌚starting today, you’ll see time estimates for how long it’ll take to finish processing your uploads across different video quality levels (SD, HD, & 4k), so you can decide the right time to hit publish! 📹
more here: https://t.co/XyfjKzjqSu pic.twitter.com/YFq4jzLNTO
YouTube had also recently announce that it would start certifying doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals in an effort to limit the misinforming content on YouTube regarding health issues.