Posted on 08/01/2017 7:54:17 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Google has insisted that its robots are now superior to humans at identifying and blocking extremist videos, saying that they flag three in four offensive videos from YouTube before they are reported by users.
[Google] more than doubled the number of illegal videos deleted from its platform last month after it adopted artificial intelligence moderators to help police content.
"With over 400 hours of content uploaded to YouTube every minute, finding and taking action on violent extremist content poses a significant challenge. But over the past month, our initial use of machine learning has more than doubled both the number of videos we've removed for violent extremism, as well as the rate at which weve taken this kind of content down."
...the AI, which can spot offensive content before human users flag it, identified more than 75 per cent of videos removed from YouTube last month. The company said the robot's ability to spot illegal content has "improved dramatically" and that it is now more accurate than humans at flagging videos.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The article states "If we [Google] find that these videos dont violate our policies but contain controversial religious or supremacist content, they will be placed in a limited state."
If their AI filtered out all islamist material, I'd be happy. But "controversial religious or supremacist content" most likely means 1) Christianity and 2) Conservative thought and discourse.
They are not better than humans. The “robots” are programs that run all the time! There is no human who devotes all his/her/its time to finding offensive videos. So of f*cking course, the bleeding “robots” are going to do a better job than humans.
Bingo.
Note how they progress on the slipper slope from extremist content to violent extremist content. Anarcho Capitalists, Amish, Alt-Right could all be labeled extremists. But they are not violent.
Palestinian Terrorists are supported by a majority of UN delegates. So, by definition they are not extremists.
A big mistake is made by not clarifying the difference between those two types of people and groups of people.
Yes, there is overlap between the two groups. But there is also overlap between male and each of those groups, and between many other factors.
I guess this is why Steve Bannon wants them regulated as a public utility.
It will not be long before they program their AI with key words—not “bad” key words but a list of MSM talking points.
If the talking points are not regurgitated then it must be extremist content!
Their AI is automated narrative enforcement trained to be politically correct.
What is the alternative to youtube?
Old, white guys, too.
Dennis Prager Called Bigot by Leftists Who Want His Guest Conductor Gig Stopped
It is really worth reading the entire original article he wrote. Leftists aren't content to stop speech on campus. Two lefty profs want to prevent this "hateful bigot" from conducting an orchestra in LA!
I saw an article today about human-looking robots. All I have ever seen are white. Are there any black robots?
Anti-Trust the hell out of Google.
This doesn’t bode well for the future of You Tube. If they’re going to censor conservative speech then conservatives will need to go elsewhere.
They’ll be whining once they realize it.
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS!
“Violent” extremist videos from...which side of the coin? I’m thinking that not many Loony Lefty/BLM/Antifa/Occupy/Anti-Trump/Muslim videos are getting blocked.
This is what needs a special counsel.
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