James Bridle: The nightmare videos of children's YouTube -- and what's wrong with the internet today
جيمس برايدل: فيديوهات كوابيس الأطفال على اليوتيوب وما خطب الإنترنت اليوم
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of military drones
هيكل الطائرات العسكرية بدون طيار
and get their heads around
and hard-to-think-about technologies.
والتفكير في التكنولوجيا
that predict the results of elections
التي تُنبئ بنتيجة الانتخابات
of these weird new technologies are.
لهذه التكنولوجيا الجديدة والغريبة.
my own self-driving car.
سيارتي الذاتية القيادة.
really trust technology,
I find them completely fascinating,
لأني أجدها رائعة تماما،
when we talk about technology,
عندما نتحدث عن التكنولوجيا،
opening up loads of chocolate eggs
يفتح الكثير من بيض الشيكولاتة
for seven long minutes.
two things about this.
has 30 million views.
that has 6.3 million subscribers,
opening up these eggs.
يفتح هذه البيضات.
for "surprise eggs" on YouTube,
"بيض المفاجآت" على اليوتيوب
10 million of these videos,
ستجد عددًا لا نهائيًا منها.
of these videos
of brands and materials,
being uploaded every single day.
يتم تحميلهم كل يوم.
who are watching these videos.
ليسوا مَن يشاهدوا هذه الفيديوهات.
like crack for little kids.
dopamine hit of the reveal,
المستمر الحقيقة،
over and over and over again,
مرارًا وتكرارًا،
and hours and hours.
the screen away from them,
in the audience nodding --
بين الجمهور يومئون برأسهم ــ
with small children and ask them,
أجد شخصا لديه أطفالا واسألهم،
the surprise egg videos.
Facebook and Instagram are using
الفيس بوك والانستجرام
to hack the brains of very small children
لتخترق عقول صغار الأطفال
that's what they're doing.
of making ad revenue on YouTube.
على عائدات الإعلانات على اليوتيوب.
popular kids' cartoons
المشهورة للأطفال
of these online as well.
منها أون لاين أيضا.
by the original content creators.
منشئي المحتوى الأصلي.
of different random accounts,
who's posting them
of our digital services,
where this information is coming from.
من أين تأتي هذه المعلومات.
that comes along,
a terribly good idea.
that's really big on kids' YouTube.
على الأطفال على اليوتيوب.
in the audience.
200,000 views,
بالنسبة للمشاهدات الحالية.
التي تتردد في الأذهان،
into your brain
it seared itself into mine,
these finger family videos
فيديوهات عائلة الأصابع
in different languages
التي تستخدم الطعام
of animation elements
أي نوع من الرسوم المتحركة
and millions and millions of these videos
والملايين من هذه الفيديوهات
kind of insane combinations.
هذه المجموعات الجنونية نوعا ما
you start to spend with them,
you start to feel that you might be.
kind of launched into this,
and deep lack of understanding
والقصور في الفهم
that seems to be presented around me.
الذي يبدو أنه يُقدَّم حولي.
where these things are coming from.
of teams of professional animators.
من إخصائيي رسوم متحركة محترفين.
assembled by software.
young kids' entertainers.
shouldn't be around children at all.
of figuring out who's making this stuff --
that we can't tell the difference
أننا لا يمكننا معرفة الاختلاف
feel kind of familiar right now?
on their videos --
على نسب مشاهدة لفيديوهاتهم
of these videos with these popular terms.
بأسماء مشهورة.
"Paw Patrol," "Easter egg,"
و"بيض شم النسيم"
popular videos into your title,
مشهورة لتظهر في عنوانك،
meaningless mash of language
عديم الجدوى للغة
tiny kids who are watching your video,
هم الذين يشاهدون الفيديو الخاص بك،
for this stuff is software.
لهذه الأشياء هي البرمجيات.
are like other videos,
التي تشبه الفيديوهات الأخرى،
to make them recommended.
kind of completely meaningless mash,
إلى هذا المزيج عديم الجدوى تماما،
this algorithmically optimized system,
الذي يعمل بشكل لوغاريتمي،
of increasingly forced to act out
combinations of words,
responding to the combined screams
يرد على الصرخات المجتمعة
trapped within these systems,
محاصرون بين هذه الأنظمة،
about this algorithmically driven culture,
هذه الثقافة المدارة بالشكل اللوغاريتمي،
watching this stuff,
وهم يشاهدون هذه الفيديوهات،
by these weird mechanisms.
لهذه الآليات الغريبة.
to even use a website.
صغار للغاية لاستخدام أي موقع.
on the screen with their little hands.
بأيديهم الصغيرة على الشاشة.
over and over and over in a loop,
هذه الفيديوهات مرارًا وتكرارًا في حلقة
in the system now
to some pretty strange places.
إلى أماكن غريبة جدا.
of a counting train
لقطار عد الأرقام
keywords come home to roost.
الكلمات الأساسية الغريبة للغاية لتستقر.
trollish in-jokes or something,
to a very weird place indeed.
or sexual content, right?
على مشاهد عنيفة أو جنسية، أليس كذلك؟
genuinely terrify children.
all of these different influences
بكل هذه التأثيرات المختلفة.
kids' worst nightmares.
does affect small children.
being traumatized,
قد تعرضوا لصدمة نفسية،
cartoon characters.
أفلام الكارتون المفضلة لديهم.
it's that if you have small children,
هو لو أن لديك أطفالا صغارا،
that really gets to me about this,
أستعرض هذه الفيديوهات،
understand how we got to this point.
نصل بالفعل إلى هذه النقطة.
all of these things,
وكل هذه الأمور،
that no one really intended.
that we're building the entire world.
التي نبني بها العالم بأكمله.
full of prejudice,
المليئة بالتحيُّز،
impulses of history,
into huge data sets
into things like credit reports,
مثل تقارير الجدارة الائتمانية،
policing systems,
constructing the world today
بها بالفعل العالم اليوم
that seems to be entirely optimized
of human behavior,
to have done it by accident,
that we were doing it,
the systems that we were building,
التي قمنا بإنشائها،
how to do anything differently with it.
أي شيء بصورة مختلفة بها.
that really seem to be driving this
يتحكمان بهذا على ما يبدو
actually developing this content,
الذين يطوِّرون بالفعل هذا المحتوى،
the separation of those things.
about the use of advertising
rolling around in the sand
that they don't really understand
probably isn't the thing
our society and culture upon,
نبني به مجتمعنا وثفافتنا،
we should be funding it.
the major driver of this is automation,
هو التشغيل التلقائي،
of all of this technology
without any kind of oversight,
مع عدم وجود أي نوع من أنواع الرقابة،
"Hey, it's not us, it's the technology."
"ونلقي باللوم على التكنولوجيا."
just algorithmically governed,
لا يتم التحكم بها بشكل لوغاريتمي فقط،
to pay attention to this,
أن يولي اهتمامه لهذه الأمور،
they'd do about it
better machine learning algorithms
آلة أفضل على دراية باللوغاريتمات
as any expert in it will tell you,
كأي خبير في هذا المجال سيخبرك،
understand how it works.
enough of that already.
this stuff up to AI to decide
للذكاء الاصطناعي لكي يقرر
legitimate public speech.
على الخطاب العام المشروع.
that's left up to unaccountable systems.
لأنظمة غير مسؤولة.
all of us should be having.
very pleasant, either.
a version of their kids' app
من تطبيقهم الخاص بالأطفال
moderated by humans.
much the same thing at Congress,
عن نفس الشيء في الكونجرس،
were going to moderate their stuff.
the first person to see this stuff,
هم أول من يشاهدوا هذا المحتوى،
precarious contract workers
quite a lot better than that.
نعمل أفضل كثيرا من ذلك.
two things together, really, for me,
بالنسبة لي،
understand -- by agency, I mean:
حسب الوكالة، أعني:
in our own best interests.
really fully understand.
always leads to violence.
يؤدي دائما إلى العنف.
does the same thing.
يؤدي أيضا لنفس النتيجة.
to start to improve these systems,
للبدء في تحسين هذه الأنظمة،
to the people who use them,
للناس الذين يستخدمونها،
a common understanding
most about these systems
أفكر كثيرا في هذه الأنظمة،
I've explained, really about YouTube.
كما آمل أني قد شرحت ذلك.
that inherently results
of power in a few hands --
and not just of technology in general,
وليست متعلقة بالتكنولوجيا عموما،
this global system, the internet,
هذا النظام العالمي، الإنترنت،
in this extraordinary way,
often hidden desires and biases
وغالبا ما تكون رغبات وتحيّزات خفية
so that we can see them,
they don't exist anymore.
as a solution to all of our problems,
كحل لكل مشاكلنا،
to what those problems actually are,
ما هي تلك المشاكل بالفعل،
about them properly
for coming and giving us that talk.
وتقديمك لهذه المحادثة لنا.
the robotic overlords take over,
الإنسان الآلي ويصبح الحاكم،
than what you're describing.
you have the resistance mounting.
نرى تصاعد المقاومة.
towards this stuff?
green shoots of resistance?
about direct resistance,
is super long-term.
in really deep ways.
بطرق عميقة للغاية.
Eleanor Saitta, always says
of sufficient scale and scope
to address within this
للتصدي لها في هذا النطاق
just by building the technology better,
بإنشاء تكنولوجيا أفضل،
that's producing these technologies.
الذي يُنتج هذه التكنولوجيات.
a hell of a long way to go.
أظن أن لدينا طريق طويل للغاية للمضي فيه.
about them super honestly,
to at least begin that process.
legibility and digital literacy,
والمعرفة الرقمية،
of digital literacy on users themselves.
على عاتق المستخدمين.
is education in this new world?
في هذا العالم الجديد؟
is kind of up to all of us,
everything we build, everything we make,
in a consensual discussion
intended to trick and surprise people
بغرض خداع ومفاجأة الناس
in every step in educating them,
في كل خطوة في تعليمهم،
is educational.
about even this really grim stuff,
وحتى بشأن هذه الأمور المُروّعة،
and look at it properly,
a piece of education
how complex systems come together and work
التي تجتمع معا وتعمل
that knowledge elsewhere in the world.
في أي مكان آخر في العالم.
an important discussion,
are really open and prepared to have it,
ومستعدين للحصول عليه،
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
James Bridle - Artist, writerWorking across technologies and disciplines, James Bridle examines technology, knowledge and the end of the future.
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James Bridle is an artist and writer working across technologies and disciplines. His artworks and installations have been exhibited in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia, and have been viewed by hundreds of thousands of visitors online. He has been commissioned by organizations including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Barbican, Artangel, the Oslo Architecture Triennale and the Istanbul Design Biennial, and he has been honored by Ars Electronica, the Japan Media Arts Festival and the Design Museum, London. His writing on literature, culture and networks has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Frieze, Wired, Domus, Cabinet, The Atlantic, the New Statesman and many others, and he has written a regular column for The Observer.
New Dark Age, Bridle's book about technology, knowledge and the end of the future is forthcoming from Verso (UK & US) in 2018. He lectures regularly on radio, at conferences, universities and other events including SXSW, Lift, the Global Art Forum and Re:Publica. He has been a resident at Lighthouse, Brighton, the White Building, London and Eyebeam, New York, and an adjunct professor on the interactive telecommunications program at New York University.
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