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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."
Yahoo, a private company, doesn't want people posting comments on its properties that it considers abusive. Somehow, that is anti-free speech and contrary to the God given First Amendment freedom to be a dick online. Slashbros demand their right to insult, harass, and threaten anyone they deem to be "PC" or a "SJW" in any forum, and will cry vainly at any attempt of a free market player to deny them that right.
This isn't the government mandating that Yahoo take these steps, mind you, and nobody's freedom of speech is threatened here.
(Score: -1, Stupid)