Tag: artificial intelligence
Facebook did little to moderate posts in the world’s most violent countries – POLITICO
In late 2020, Facebook researchers came to a sobering conclusion. The company’s efforts to curb hate speech in the Arabic world were not working.
In a 59-page memo circulated internally just before New Year’s Eve, engineers detailed the grim numbers.
Only 6 percent of Arabic-language hate content was detected on Instagram before it made its way onto the photo-sharing platform owned by Facebook. That compared with a 40 percent takedown rate on Facebook.
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Eric Schmidt: AI Could Worsen Our Misinformation Problem
For years now, artificial intelligence has been hailed as both a savior and a destroyer. The technology really can make our lives easier, letting us summon our phones with a “Hey, Siri” and (more importantly) assisting doctors on the operating table. But as any science-fiction reader knows, AI is not an unmitigated good: It can be prone to the same racial biases as humans are, and, as is the case with self-driving cars, it can be forced to make murky