On Monday, YouTube removed many videos of robots fighting in contests similar to the TV show 'Battlebots'; on Tuesday most — but not all — were restored.
"Content that displays the deliberate infliction of animal suffering or the forcing of animals to fight is not allowed on YouTube. Examples include, but are not limited to, dog fighting and cock fighting," the email said.
Of course, there is no actual ban on robot fighting videos on the platform, and a YouTube representative"With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call," said the spokesperson."When it's brought to our attention that a video has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it. We also offer uploaders the ability to appeal removals, and we will re-review the content.
In this photo from the BattleBots Challege at the Amazon Re:MARS conference in Los Vegas on June 6, Chomp, on the right, fights with Skorpios. Videos of fights such as these were removed by YouTube on Monday for showing animal cruelty.Ars Technica pointed out that while YouTube didn't specifically say the offending videos were originally flagged by algorithm, it's hard to imagine a human watching any of these videos and thinking the robots were actually animals.
While some of the removed videos starred robots with names that referred to animals — like"catKong" — one maker, Henry Aird, told Ars Technica that some of the videos removed from his channel featured no descriptions, tags or even English-language titles. "The strange thing is my videos were named '0037' and '0050,'" Aird told the website."I didn't change the video names or even tag them — they were just hastily uploaded to my page and sent to someone else to sort out, essentially. And they still got flagged for animal cruelty, so nothing makes any sense to me."
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