Unlike the regular YouTube app, YouTube Kids has a simple, cartoonish design that young children can easily navigate, along with various filtering tools and timers for parents.

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A team of researchers has developed a high accuracy deep learning-based classifier designed to detect YouTube videos with disturbing content for kids. This was done after finding that the current ...

In early July, YouTube made a significant change to its software to boost what it deems ?quality? children?s content.

Algorithmic recommendations aren’t just bad for kids’ mental health; they’re taking away the journey of discovery that comes with being human.

YouTube says it works hard to protect children, but the researchers say the material could traumatize vulnerable kids or send them down dark roads of radicalization and extremism.

Psychology often prefers a principle of parsimony: Simpler is better than complex. Recent research shows that simpler algorithms with simple features sometimes outperform more-complex ones.