AI Makes Explicit Songs, YouTube Serves Them to Indian Minors

Summary

Over the course of three days, we found hundreds of songs describing sexual acts in graphic detail and depicting problematic sexual behaviour. Many carried explicit thumbnails and titles in Hindi, Bhojpuri and Punjabi. The content appears to raise questions not only about compliance with YouTube's own policies, but also about whether some material could potentially violate Indian laws governing obscene and child-related content online. NDTV Datafy ran tests in three scenarios: logged-out YouTube use, and two minors’ accounts set under parental supervision. Parental settings allowed these…

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