How can “beach” turn to “buster” or “buster” to “bastard” or “combo” to “condom”? It happens when Google Speech-To-Text and Amazon Transcribe, both automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, mistakenly give age-inappropriate subtitles on YouTube Kids’ videos. This is the main finding of a study titled “From Beach to Bitch: The Unintended and Unsafe Copying of Children’s Content on YouTube” which covered 7,013 videos from 24 YouTube channels. Ten percent of those videos contained at least a “severely forbidden word” for children, says Ashik Khuda Bukhsh, an assistant professor in the…
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