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Facebook Spares Humans By Fighting Offensive Photos With AI (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via TechCrunch: Facebook tells TechCrunch that its artificial intelligence systems now report more offensive photos than humans do. Typically when users upload content that is deemed offensive, it has to be seen and flagged by at least one human worker or user. Such posts that violate terms of service can include content that is hate speech, threatening or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence. The content that workers have to dig through is obviously not great, and may lead to various psychological illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder. AI is helping to eliminate such a terrible job as it can scan images that are uploaded before anyone ever sees them. Facebook's AI already "helps rank News Feed stories, read aloud the content of photos to the vision impaired and automatically write closed captions for video ads that increase view time by 12 percent," writes TechCrunch. Facebook's Director of Engineering for Applied Machine Learning Joaquin Candela tells TechCrunch, "One thing that is interesting is that today we have more offensive photos being reported by AI algorithms than by people. The higher we push that to 100 percent, the fewer offensive photos have actually been seen by a human." One risk of such an automated system is that it could censor art and free expression that may be productive or beautiful, yet controversial. The other more obvious risk is that such a system could take jobs away from those in need.
They taught AI religion?
Well, I guess we now know *why* Skynet will attempt to destroy us.
Or we could eliminate the problem by just not censoring nipples. If you get PTSD from seeing nipples on Facebook, see a psychologist...
I honestly pray you reported what you saw.
I used to be an investigator for the largest ISP in the US. I saw so much pure evil, I left the security side of IT after 4 years. I've got a strong stomach, I saw blood in the military, I'm a "real man" as it were. But some content, especially involving minors is just beyond the pale.
Anyone who would harm a child in a malicious way needs to be executed. Full stop. I have children, and let me tell you that when you are aware of things like the above, you love your kids a little more when you see them at the end of days like that. Sadly, the left just coddles people that should be removed from society. They blame a bad childhood, this, that. It doesn't matter why someone does something evil. It's matter that they did it. Full stop. I don't give a monkey's toss that you're mental, angry, whatever. People that intentionally harm children should be culled from the population. Immediately.
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When did /. become a politically correct playground for the sensitive children that never grew up?
Besides, trigger warnings trigger me, you insensitive clod!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.