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YouTube's automatic captions do this for any word on an ambiguous blacklist. Not only is this annoying when reading the captions, but I imagine that for the hearing impaired, it would also be condescending to have Google tell you what you can and cannot read, especially since the hearing un-impaired experienced it just fine.

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And then there's TikTok who will downrank your content if its AI catches you using words like "kill" or "suicide" [1]... and so, as many creators cross-publish on YouTube Shorts as well, it also automatically degrades the content there as the creators use "euphemisms" instead. And then young people snag that up and literally write that way on Reddit.

No thanks, I don't want to hear or read "unalived" again. And for fucks sake it's high time the US government steps in on Tiktok - when the CCP literally influences how our children speak it's gone way too far!

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/algorithms-suicide-unalive/

The whole "unalive" thing started happening on US-based platforms even before TikTok existed, so blaming this on the CCP is either very ignorant or intentional misleading. Normal YouTube videos is where this started. Blame Google and their advertisers.

Most of this modern day nonsense comes from the US so maybe look inward first?

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