YouTube is trying to bridge the gap between the dedicated children’s app and regular YouTube for teens and teens.
YouTube has announced On Wednesday, it will launch a new “supervised” beta experience, which will introduce additional features and settings to regulate the types of content that older children can access on the platform. Content will be restricted based on the selection of one of the three categories. “Explore” will feature videos suitable for children 9 and older, “Explore More” will include them in a category with videos for children 13 and older, and “Most YouTube” will show them almost everything, with except for age limitation and subjects who may be sensitive to non-adults.
YouTube says it will use a mix of machine learning, human reviews and user input to view content – a system that has he worked spectacularly for YouTube in the past. It seems that he is trying to get out of any problems that will arise from this destroyed moderation system, the ad blog stated that YouTube knows “that our systems will make mistakes and continue to evolve over time.”
Clearly, any tool that tries to filter inappropriate content on YouTube is welcome and necessary. But tutors can’t just rely on YouTube to get behind the wheel and guide their children’s experience. I saw how well it worked in the past, in the dedicated YouTube app for kids – which means it’s not great.
Part of the problem is that the YouTube platform, like other social media giants, is too large to be moderated properly. A wrong turn can send your child down rabbit hole of conspiracies whether they were looking for them or not. In addition, if we are honest, teenagers and young people will probably find a way to watch whatever content they want to watch, no matter how secure their home computer is.
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All that being said, creating a middle ground between YouTube Kids and the chaos of normal YouTube is something. Just don’t rely on a perfect moderation system. Even YouTube says this.