YouTube: Kids Fun TV
One unofficial cartoon shows Peppa Pig having teeth pulled at the dentist
Last week, a blog post by writer James Bridle highlights how it works YouTube was still being swamped by bizarre and indecent videos aimed at children.
The site says it already stops such videos earnings advertising revenue.
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However, Mr. Bridle's blog post went deeper into what h (19459012)
Often it appears that the videos had been algorithmically generated to capitalize on popular trends.
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YouTube: Animals For Kids
In one clip, Spiderman and Elsa, from Frozen, fire machine guns
"Stock animations, audio tracks, and lists of the keywords being assembled in their thousands to produce an endless stream of videos," he said.
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"Someone or something or some combination of people and things is using YouTube to systematically frighten, traumatise, and abuse children, automatically and at scale , "he wrote.
YouTube says it has already developed a lot of money from the earliest of them.
However, many of the videos do not get reported by viewers and continue to carry advertisements.
YouTube has now said it will make the videos an age of 18.
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YouTube: Babyfun TV
Some Disney characters in odd situations
Age-restricted videos are blocked from appearing in the YouTube Kids app, which is primarily curated by algorithms.
They also can not be viewed on the YouTube website unless people are logged in with an adult's account.
However, a report in the New York Times found that inappropriate videos have previously slipped through the net.
In his blog post, Mr. Bridle said he did not know how YouTube could stamp out the problem.
"We have built a world which operates at scale, where human oversight is simply impossible, and no manner of inhuman I've used this in essay, "he said.
