One-page reference for engineering a UGC video moderation pipeline at 100,000 videos a day: the cheapest-check-first / log-and-report two-rule spine, the five-stage funnel architecture (hash matching, cheap classifiers, VLM context review, human queue, governance floor), the build-vs-buy verdict per component, the 2026 tool field with prices for hash systems, classifier APIs and VLMs, the funnel cost model against the naive per-minute baseline, the per-harm-class threshold strategy with its three failure regions, the five-milestone build order, and the three governance pillars (mandatory reporting, transparency and minors, reviewer wellbeing).
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The book · Volume 6 of 7
AI for Video: A Complete Guide to Intelligence in Video Products: From Models and Inference to Computer Vision, Speech, Search, and Generative Video
This blueprint lays out a UGC moderation pipeline for 100,000 videos a day: hash matching, cheap classifiers, VLM review, a human queue, cost per stage and governance. Volume 6 covers the AI side in depth: the lifecycle of an AI feature, deployment topologies, computer vision for detection and classification, and the ML basics behind threshold decisions. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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