YouTube will rely more on AI moderation while human reviewers can’t come to the office

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube will rely more on AI to moderate videos during the coronavirus pandemic, since many of its human reviewers are being sent home to limit the spread of the virus. This means videos may be taken down from the site purely because they’re flagged by AI as potentially violating a policy, whereas the videos might normally get routed to a human reviewer to confirm that they should be taken down.
Human moderators usually work from specific offices th