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Yahoo's New Anti-Abuse AI Outperforms Previous AI (wired.co.uk)
16.4% of the comments on Yahoo News are "abusive," according to human screeners. Now Yahoo has devised an abuse-detecting algorithm "that can accurately identify whether online comments contain hate speech or not," reports Wired UK:
In 90 per cent of test cases Yahoo's algorithm was able to correctly identify that a comment was abusive... The company used a combination of machine learning and crowdsourced abuse detection to create an algorithm that trawled the comment sections of Yahoo News and Finance to sniff out abuse. As part of its project, Yahoo will be releasing the first publicly available curated database of online hate speech.
The machine-learning algorithm was "trained on a million Yahoo article comments," according to the article, and Slashdot reader AmiMoJo writes "The system could help AIs avoid being tricked into making abusive comments themselves, as Microsoft's Tay twitter bot did earlier this year."
The machine-learning algorithm was "trained on a million Yahoo article comments," according to the article, and Slashdot reader AmiMoJo writes "The system could help AIs avoid being tricked into making abusive comments themselves, as Microsoft's Tay twitter bot did earlier this year."
Political Correctness is fascism pretending to be Manners
I remember in Cincinnati back in the late 90's or early 21st there was a police shooting of some black guy in one of the shitty black neighborhoods. There were the usual protests, calls for the heads of the evil racist cops, etc. The police there responded by simply parking their cars and stopping patrols in said shitty black neighborhood. Crime shot up 600% in the shitty black neighborhood almost immediately. Pretty soon the same people attacking the evil racist cops were literally BEGGING them to come back. Problem solved.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.