[_dps]

In the past I would have agreed with your skepticism, but they just announced a huge human-powered review team:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/05/technology/google-youtube-hi...

I don't know based on that article if it's directly related, but they've obviously decided that they need serious human review teams.

[majani]

Wow, my mind is blown. Makes me now feel like all those claims Google made in the past about how impractical hiring a customer care team would be for them was just pure BS.