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Facebook touts use of artificial intelligence to help detect harmful content and misinformation
See-BS “News” ^ | August 12, 2020 4:51 PM | Musadiq Bidar

Posted on 08/12/2020 5:11:20 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Confronted with an onslaught of social media posts filled with misinformation and harmful content, Facebook said Tuesday it has begun to rely on artificial intelligence to boost its efforts to evaluate whether posts violate its policies and should be labeled or removed.

AI is being used to rank content on its platforms involving self-harm, sexual exploitation, and hate speech. However, content will still be evaluated by human moderators, regardless of whether the offending posts are reported by users or detected by the company’s proactive systems.

Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice president of integrity, told reporters on a call Tuesday that the company would be shifting toward “more content being initially actioned by our automated systems,” but would continue to rely on humans to review posts and train artificial intelligence.

Facebook came under fire earlier this summer when it decided to leave up a post from President Trump that appeared to incite violence in the wake of protests following George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. …

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: ai; censorship; diefacebookdie; facebook; fakebook; fakenews; tds; zuckerberg

1 posted on 08/12/2020 5:11:20 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai; Army Air Corps; BenLurkin; GraceG

(Insert your Evil AI Reference of Choice Here)


2 posted on 08/12/2020 5:13:19 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: KC_Lion

The problem is lefties are ‘training’ the ‘AI’ - rules-based neural-networks.


3 posted on 08/12/2020 5:15:22 PM PDT by curious7
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To: KC_Lion
Ok I'm in

some text

4 posted on 08/12/2020 5:18:37 PM PDT by ecomcon
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To: Olog-hai

Boy they sure do sound like a PUBLISHER now!! Start the Lawsuit Brigade


5 posted on 08/12/2020 5:21:11 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: curious7

I think it sad that people still use FB.


6 posted on 08/12/2020 5:21:38 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: curious7

Correct. GIGO.

Liberal biased “coding” is still contrary to logic and reality, natural or artificial.


7 posted on 08/12/2020 5:24:16 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: curious7

Not rocket surgery.

def filter_orange_man(text)
if (sentiment_bias
(text,’TRUMP) = ‘positive’)
block(text)
decrement
(text.src.id.social_score)
return()


8 posted on 08/12/2020 5:27:41 PM PDT by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever.)
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To: KC_Lion

Facebook is evil.


9 posted on 08/12/2020 5:35:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: KC_Lion

FaceNet became self-aware on...


10 posted on 08/12/2020 5:48:05 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Olog-hai

China has done this too on their social media. According to a Chinese speaker I know, this has spawned a whole style of writing in which the author makes his or her politically problematic point in a way that will evade the AI censor software.


11 posted on 08/12/2020 5:56:35 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: Olog-hai

Certainly is artificial, cause it isn’t intelligent.


12 posted on 08/12/2020 6:08:07 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Olog-hai

AI is not neutral. It will literally create systemic biases based on the biased data selection used to train it, the further “refinement” by liberally biased Big Tech programmers ... and in the ultimate seal of approval, it wouldn’t be put into a production environment unless it did what those in power want it to do.


13 posted on 08/13/2020 9:27:46 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: curious7

Agreed. The far-left biases are built into the system from the far-left data sources they select to the trainers who “refine” it to the final decision to implement it.

Examples:
* Comment moderating AI were trained by programmers who thought Huffington Post and New York Times were neutral data sets.
* Hate speech flagging via Amazon Mturk uses far left definitions, that to criticize illegal immigrants or use that term is racist.


14 posted on 08/13/2020 9:29:12 AM PDT by tbw2
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