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YouTube CEO Talks about Increasing Regulatory Staff

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Here’s a shocker, the CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojckicki has talked about increasing regulatory staff and to protect YouTube. YouTube plans to add more human moderators and to increase its use of machine learning to cut down on content that violates the video-sharing site’s policies.

The CEO mentions in a blog post published Monday evening that Google will increase the number of employees reviewing content to more than 10,000 in 2018. Mentioning that they have learned from their past experiences taking down “Extremist” content and applying it to other “Problematic” content.

The changes come in response to the “Adpocalypse 3.0”, where YouTube Content Creators suffered a decrease in revenue again. This was due to the fact that there were videos with children that were the target of sexually inappropriate comments.

YouTube has since killed a lot of accounts and removed more than 150,000 videos from the website. Turning off comments in over 625,000 videos targeted by alleged child predators. As much as some content creators would like to stay away from this, the problem is too big for them to stay out of.

The company will also focus on training its machine-learning algorithm to help human reviewers identify and terminate accounts and comments violating the site’s rules. Wojckicki has also mentioned that they will take a new approach to advertising on YouTube.

“We are planning to apply stricter criteria, conduct more manual curation, while also significantly ramping up our team of ad reviewers to ensure ads are only running where they should,” she wrote.

This could be seen in two ways, for one, Content Creators will now get a swifter resolution for monetary issues. However, this could also mean that more aggressive methods of censorship could be used and, depending on the staff that’s hired, we could see even more unjustified takedowns against creators of content like Horror, much like After Dark Analysis a few months ago.

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Early Launch of Diablo 4 PS5, PS4 Has License Issues

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Blizzard couldn’t expect it to be flawless, could they? The Ultimate Edition’s four days of early access to Diablo 4 on PS5 and PS4 has caused many license errors. Blizzard may not be able to fix Sony’s issue, which is preventing them from playing.

“We are seeing reports regarding PlayStation users experiencing Invalid License errors,” community manager PezRadar writes. We’re investigating and will update.” PC and Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One players have been able to play since the game launched less than an hour ago, suggesting a Sony flaw.

Only the Ultimate Edition of Diablo 4 has early access, with the full launch on June 6, 2023. After accessing Diablo 4, consult our guide. Do you have licensing issues like PS5, PS4 players?

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Ubisoft’s E3-Style Livestream Is Worth Watching

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A new sizzle reel promises gameplay for games we’ve been waiting for at Ubsoft’s annual Forward showcase on June 12 at 10 am PT / 6 pm BST. Expect live updates on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, and The Crew Motorfest during the French publisher’s spotlight.

Publisher showcases are now commonplace. Over the next week and a half, we’ll be eating well as E3 announces exciting video games.

Ubisoft’s Forward event—what are you hoping to see?

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The PS5 and PS4 narrative adventures The Expanse revives Telltale Games

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The Expanse: A Telltale Series will release its first five episodes on PS5 and PS4 on July 27. New gameplay footage was released in a trailer.

This isn’t the original Telltale team, which imploded two years ago in a twist many saw coming. Deck Nine and LCG Entertainment are developing and publishing The Expanse, a hermit-crabbing game.

If you missed that hot moment when we were swimming in episodic narrative content, your chance is coming. The Expanse: A Telltale Series: your thoughts? Try this doppelganger?

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