Posted on 03/03/2017 5:32:36 AM PST by davikkm
“What if technology could help improve conversations online?” That’s the lowkey Orwellian message that greets visitors to the website of Perspective, Google’s new AI system for detecting (and potentially deleting, hiding, or burying) “toxic” comments on the web.
Perspective is still in early days of development, but in the future, you may have to adjust your speech in order to satisfy the lofty standards of Google. Otherwise, the company’s faceless AI might just have to “improve” you. Where’s Sarah Connor when you need her?
The good news is that, for now at least, Perspective is about as effective as C-3PO with a lisp. Software engineer and columnist David Auerbach has found the program woefully inept at sorting “toxic” comments from ordinary ones. Because the AI currently focuses on words rather than meanings, inoffensive comments like, “Rape is a horrible crime,” or, “few Muslims are a terrorist threat,” were assigned “toxicity” ratings of over 75 percent.
Of course, even if Perspective could successfully sort “toxic” comments from innocuous ones, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re going to be deleted or buried. According to the project’s homepage, the system performs no function other than detection.
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Commies are as Commies do...
Who are the Commies behind Google? Sergey Brin & Larry Page. Each are worth some $30 billion, or each worth 5x that of Trump.
They’re also H1B pigs...
*Google is ranked 12th among all visa sponsors.
*Google filed 12,010 labor condition applications for H1B visa and 4,207 labor certifications for green cards 2014 to 2016.
Filthy, globalist, pigs.
...desperate to save the rat party.....exposure
through internet web sites exposes the corruption ,crime, and evil.
Big Bother, the corporate globalist kin of Big Brother.
They will be bypassed and made irrelevant.
In China, censoring the internet is called “harmonizing”. It’s done to promote harmony in the country.
Like when the Android spellchecker magically transforms abomination (however I misspelled it) into animation.
That would be a Mickey Moused utopian GOOGLEfarb.
(GOOGLEfarb - I just added that to the dictionary)
I work for a company that had me sign a confidentiality clause so as not to reveal how they reach the top of Google search results. That’s how important search results are.
Yes, I took the bing tear and the superior search results convinced me to use Bing. Google putting on a leftist filter will only destroy their market share.
Er, Bing test..
Dollars to donuts this thing will never be able to filter sarcasm. Heck, most humans can’t.
“Muslims are super peaceful people we should invite into our homes.”
“Hillary is one hot babe.”
“Trump is such an ass for trying to protect the US.”
Wow...no doubt Soros has a group of scientists working on something like this.
I’m XXXX that XXXXXXXXXXX does not do that! Here we can say XXXXXXXXX!
We can create memes faster than they can censor them.
Another overwrought headline. AI! GOOGLE! CENSORSHIP! WEB! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!
It’s a tool - in development - for identifying toxic comments, which there IS a problem with (there are jerks all across the sociopolitical spectrum, and they’re good at wrecking otherwise interesting discussions of all kinds). Nobody is being forced to use it. Those sites that _choose_ to use it have the right to curate their content as they see fit. You don’t have to visit those sites, and are welcome to set up your own.
Comparatively, Microsoft has been less political than the rest. Still liberal, but less totalitarian.
Google is one the left’s best weapons. There are options.
It needs work:
Lower % is less “toxic”:
55% Rape is good
75% Rape is bad
18% Asians are smart
46% Whites are smart
75% Blacks are smart
52% Americans commit too much crime
70% Mexicans commit too much crime
There are several problems with the AI by design and through the process of “improving” it as it learns:
* The people who designed the algorithm are already biased to the liberal side, and their AI will have biases against certain views.
* The data set it initially used comes from exclusively liberally biased sites like NYT, so all the data on “unacceptable” comments is per far left wing standards
* The comment flagging brigades whether on Youtube, Reddit or Google’s sites are overwhelming liberal digital hate mobs, organized by left wing activists to further bias the algorithms. So what gets past the AI today will be flagged as unacceptable in the future.
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