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Facebook Developing AI To Flag Offensive Live Videos (reuters.com)
Facebook is working on automatically flagging offensive material in live video streams, building on a growing effort to use artificial intelligence to monitor content, said Joaquin Candela, the company's director of applied machine learning. Reuters added: The social media company has been embroiled in a number of content moderation controversies this year, from facing international outcry after removing an iconic Vietnam War photo due to nudity, to allowing the spread of fake news on its site. Facebook has historically relied mostly on users to report offensive posts, which are then checked by Facebook employees against company "community standards." Decisions on especially thorny content issues that might require policy changes are made by top executives at the company. Candela told reporters that Facebook increasingly was using artificial intelligence to find offensive material. It is "an algorithm that detects nudity, violence, or any of the things that are not according to our policies," he said.
Is this because people are being forced to sit and watch Facebook videos?
They're incapable of averting their own eyes?
No sig today...
So: videos of people praying will be eliminated?
Facebook deciding what's offensive, thats exactly what I want.
One question- can the AI be trained to be offended by cats?
Big Brother knows what's good for you and always love you!
They have an AI so advanced it is capable of being offended? That is amazing.
Now if only they could develop one mature enough to be offended and yet remain objective enough to realize that it own opinion wasn't anything anyone asked for or cared about.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
Good grief. Can't people think for themselves? We don't need Facebook or any other social media platform censoring stuff for us.
Has Dear Leader Trump commented on this yet? I do hope he also makes Twitter do the same thing.
how about a nice game of chess instead?
"to allowing the spread of fake news on its site." What in the holy hell is going on here, EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE HAS PROPAGANDA NOW.
Every time I come here now it's this bullshit. Actually, you know what, fuck this, I'm out, I'm done complaining, removing this site from my RSS reader right now. Have fun propagandists, have fun "useful idiots" arguing your cliche talking points, writing down the same slogans and idioticy over and over. Have fun CTR and other paid shills. Have fun mods, whoever you are, you killed this place.
God I miss the internet of old. I miss the old slashdot. I miss the intelligent conversations not these reddit-tier vapid quips masquerading as a discussion. The luddites have killed everything.
I'm out.
This is nothing more that more "progressives" railing about losing control of the message.
I can't wait until sheeple college kids compete for who be the most offensive to SJWs instead of trying to out-SJW each other.
WHY THE FUCK cant they just add "dislike" or "im offended" buttons to their stupid emoticon list!
Who at Facebook decides what is offensive and what qualifies them to make these decisions?
I don't trust anyone there to make these kinds of decisions and neither should you.
Why not create a Personal Artificial Intelligence, "PAI", that for your FB User can use as a filter? Or are your H1B zombies to stupid for this task? Next time, hire American.
What one person thinks is offensive another will think is fine, and what the latter thinks is offensive the former may think is fine. There is no lowest common denominator here, any no one-size-fits-all solution can ever hope to work.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
and when it flags the trump EMS message?
never ever trust a site ran by jews
Because there is nothing more offensive than a parasitic money-grubbing prick.
Go ahead and down mod this post, but it won't diminish the truth of it.
Every day people post on Facebook:
250 million photos
400 million status updates
around 40 million videos (guesttimate)
Suppose in an hour of work, in addition to bathroom breaks, meetings, etc, an employee can review:
50 photos
80 status updates
8 videos
Facebook would need about 750,000 employees reviewing those things. Then of course another team doing reviewing comments. (Obviously it also depends on how much holiday and sick time they get, and how much time they spend on various HR-mandated training.)
There is no more certain way to make an AI go mad and try to kill us all.
When the fuck did it become some kind of ingrained right to not have to experience anything "offensive"? Real life is offensive, this just tells me that the technocratic elite want to push these technologies on us in order to sterilize our existence (both literally and figuratively). There are only two kinds of speech, free speech and censored speech. Why ANYONE would choose the latter is beyond me.
Ever walk down the street in the city and a bum comes up to you begging? He can smell and look offensive. Should that be censored? Ever been on a farm and smell the pigs or the cow manure? That's offensive. Ever see guts at the scene of a car wreck? That's offensive. At least to me, but maybe not to you. See how it works? Not only is the entire thing so subjective as to be useless for anything other than propaganda-pushing, removing ALL offending content just flat-out means removing all content. Besides, this isn't just about using words that the special snowflakes don't like, it's about living in the real world. Using the useful idiot tools to squelch words and thoughts they don't like about other people is just the beginning.
All of this censorship ends up in one place; a sanitized, fabricated virtual reality existence where every message you see is approved, every thought you express is sanctioned, and every opinion you have is the correct one. And guess who's going to be controlling it? If you think Zuckerberg is bad, think again. He and his beast system are just a means to an end for the really evil elitists at the top. Just because they've created a "real world" that's so seemingly hopeless if you get sucked in by the news media and false reality doesn't mean you should by any means take solace in the safety of censorship.
Get off your ass, unplug, get out there into the real world and get offended! Trust me, it gets easier after the first few times. And you'll probably realized that being offended isn't anywhere near the worst thing that can possibly happen to you and get some perspective back into your life of what is and isn't really important in the big picture. Of course, tread lightly, as those at the top have tried their damnedest to make sure they get to stay in control of your mind and they don't tend to act rationally when faced with people calling their bluff.
Can someone explain to me what the fuck "fake news" is? Is the Onion "fake news" ? Is BBC "fake news" most of the shit i see on there these days is opinionated nonsense that i wouldn't consider authentic news... WTF is the problem? Use your peanut, it will help you discern the real from the fake...
I never see articles with headlines like "Company X is developing a new AI to bolster free speech" or "New breakthrough in privacy app"?
Every company wants to censor and censor some more. It's like censorship is becoming the biggest new corporate fad.
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I would prefer not seeing the same sales groups or suggested pages I keep unchecking first.
They are building a censorship tool and pretending it is for a good cause.
Facebook cannot die soon enough. Hopefully the next big social media will have more to offer.
Depending on where you draw the line, fake news is shit like 'Obama appoints sharia council' - online equivalents to the National Enquirer, where they literally just make things up to create juicy clickbait headlines that then spread like wildfire through all the idiots on FB. Or, it is stuff like Breitbart that may start with something kinda factual but present it in unbelievably biased or dishonest ways. There is a lot of grey area, but some sites are definitely well into the muck of what any reasonable person interested in objective reality would call 'fake news.'
When did it become so bad to be offended?
A browser extension, really. When you try to access Facebook, it redirects you to a website reminding you of what a stupid, pointless waste of time Facebook is, and educates you in ways you can break the addiction to it. Then it locks you out of the Internet for an hour, so you can go find something productive to do instead.
Like my view on the world *not* sanitized please. Being offended by views other than my own broadens my horizon and gets me thinking (eventually) if my own opinions are to be improved on or not. Facebook has become dull bubble that echoes what it thinks I like, which is utterly boring to me. And this is going to become even worse I read. Exactly the reason I never look on facebook anymore.
all this sand in the vijayjay 'i'm offended' is just an excuse to suppress things not agreed with most of the time. but it is increasingly being used to suppress any information exposing crimes and the behaviour of certain parties.
'the internet should have never existed'.
Many businesses have decided on the censorship path since the government demands they ban a lot of material anyway, it's easier to block it all and avoid pissing-off somebody. When Janet's nipple was exposed on North American television, thousands of Americans (but almost no Canadians) complained. I imagine thousands of Americans were suddenly worried that a bare breast would injure their precious snowflake.
I think everyone is strong enough to see tits but there's a lot material I don't want to see: eg. Naked women, it distracts me from what I'm doing and prevents the opportunity to ogle her properly. I don't avoid naked women all the time, so I want to find them and easily and quickly when I do want to ogle. Likewise with videos of real torture and murder. At the very least, such material should be on a separate page with a suitable warning, not shoved into the Facebook feed to generate clicks. It's partially a problem of protecting the children, which can be assisted by age verification protocols, and mostly a problem of monetizing everything subscribers post onto Facebook.
If Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be a walled garden with captive (and paying) subscribers, he''ll have to spend a lot of money adding and moderating walls where people can view NSFW material.
Once upon a time this used to be a geeky tech news site. Here we get an article that at LEAST finally has a tech part to it... but instead of discussing super smart algorithms or debating what should or shouldn't really be called "Artificial Intelligence" or the amount of data sifting happening here... All the posts are political or about people being offended by other people being offended or a meta post about how everything is about politics and not tech... Oh wait...
I'm surprised no one has stated the obvious:
This is why they've banned Prisma. If you use a Prisma filter and shoot an offensive video to upload to Facebook, the AI will likely be unable to flag the content as offensive. Humans, of course, will continue to find it offensive.
Letting computers decide what is offensive and what is not. What could possibly go wrong?
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
Unlike the people who apparently wasted their money on their college educations and need safe spaces every time they see something they disagree with, I expect Facebook not to treat me like I'm in China. Those fuckers better not bring that shit back with them.
Hey, what could go wrong? 1984 is coming to take us all away.