Google CEO Sundar Pichai

 

Google's issues with YouTube will never be totally solved. 

Or at least, that's impression Google CEO Sundar Pichai suggested in a CNN interview. 

Google-owned YouTube has been struggling with all sorts of content that YouTubers have flagged, including fake and conspiracy videos and lewd comments on children's videos.

YouTube has responded with more human monitors, new policies and an aggressive machine learning push to rid some of this content from YouTube. 

“We’ve gotten much better at using a combination of machines and humans,” Pichai told CNN's Poppy Harlow. “So it’s one of those things, let’s say we’re getting it right 99% of the time, you’ll still be able to find examples. Our goal is to take that to a very, very small percentage well below 1%.”

Pichai said Google probably can’t get that to 100%.

YouTube receives 400 hours of new content uploaded every minute, which makes true monitoring of the content impossible. The Google CEO compared it to credit card systems. "There’s some fraud in that....Anything when you run at that scale, you have to think about percentages.”

However, he said Google will make "significant progress” on this and that “enforcement will get better.”

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