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Zuckerberg Shares Facebook's Plan to Bring Community Together, Edits Out a Questionable Sentence Minutes Later (mashable.com)
Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg wants to bring people closer together. He published a 6,000-word letter on his Facebook page Thursday to outline his vision for the kind of world he thinks Facebook can help create. The free-wielding note included few specifics, but offered a number of broad, ambitious goals for how the tech giant can contribute to a better understanding of everything from terrorism to fake news. Interestingly, minutes after the post was published, Zuckerberg edited out a sentence from the letter. Mashable adds: In the post, Zuckerberg briefly touches on how artificial intelligence can be used to detect terrorist propaganda. "Right now, we're starting to explore ways to use AI to tell the difference between news stories about terrorism and actual terrorist propaganda so we can quickly remove anyone trying to use our services to recruit for a terrorist organization," he wrote in the post published Thursday. That sounds like a straightforward enough application of AI -- one that's in line with what Zuckerberg and other executives have discussed in the past -- but it's different from what the CEO had originally written. In an earlier version of the missive, which was shared with a number of news outlets in advance of its publication on Facebook, Zuckerberg took the idea farther. The "long-term promise of AI," he wrote, is that it can be used used to "identify risks that nobody would have flagged at all, including terrorists planning attacks using private channels." Here's an expanded version of the quote from the Associated Press (emphasis ours). "The long term promise of AI is that in addition to identifying risks more quickly and accurately than would have already happened, it may also identify risks that nobody would have flagged at all "including terrorists planning attacks using private channels, people bullying someone too afraid to report it themselves, and other issues both local and global. It will take many years to develop these systems." That's different from what was described in the final version that was shared Thursday, which made no mention of private communication in relation to AI and terrorism.
it may also identify risks that nobody would have flagged at all--including terrorists planning attacks using private channels, people bullying someone too afraid to report it themselves...
And also, coming soon: PRECRIME!
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Anybody that uses Facebook as a news source is a complete idiot.
First step: everyone presto sign up for a FREE AWESOME facebook account!
Then we will see...
C'mon, Zuckie, little rich asshole. Your sense of entitlement is absolutely disgusting.
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Seriously.
Sound like high minded excuse to start use the platform for political purposes. All these words "bullying", "fake news", etc. are code words involved in liberal virtue signalling. "Fake news" is something that those evil right wingers do (especially it does not apply to New York Times, et al. or any garbage coming from BLM or other such outlets). "Bullying" is anything that makes a member of a designated minority group feel bad. Facebook is going the same way as Twitter.
Given Facebooks enormous reach, I think we can say that rarely has world placed such a huge power in the hands of one individual. We are unfortunate that the individual in case is Mark Zuckenberg, a man so insecure that he needs constantly signal his virtue. I guess it was only a matter of time until he would succumb to this. This is going to be a slippery slope and is going to get worse. As it does, it will become harder and harder to call out liberal bullshit (Trevor Martin -type of misinformation) as contradictory views to orthodoxy is hidden deeper and deeper.
People who are repelled by this (I think term "red pilled" is used) feel (with justification) that they get better information from such luminaries as infowars.com and breitbart.com. O tempora, o mores. Five years ago I didn't expect that I would seriously say that there are any sane reasons that one should pay any attention to infowars.com. (Just to make it clear: I am NOT endorsing infowars.com in any way possible. I'm just saying that due to general drop in quality in other news, it has become relatively better.)
As a side note, this trend has pushed me back to the Slashdot. It seems that, one again, this is almost the only place where even some sane voices are heard. (Ten years ago it Slashdot was for the place to be for a different reason.) Reddit has become unreadable, twitter also, now facebook, and so on. Case in point, the coverage of PewDiePie -scandal in past day was covered best here on slashdot. Decent analysis, perspective, opposing views, etc. in comments that was not available anywhere else. Thanks folks, keep it up. You might be the last best hope for humanity until news media fixes it self.
The problem is not that people are seeking news through facebook; the problem is that they're seeing what other people post on facebook. That loosens the control of the media, which is a major problem, as they have lost control of the narrative. Scan the front page of the NY Times or CNN's webpage for a week and you'll realize that the narrative is 100% focused on destroying Trump's presidency. Facts be damned, though they'll be included if convenent. Facebook allowing people to post, and worse, to aggregate material that doesn't push the narrative is a major problem and must be stopped.
Unfortunately, the major news organizations can't afford to pay zuckerberg level prices to control what's shown on facebook, so they have to badger him into censoring it.
The ones "planning" terrorist attacks using a Facebook channel are called "pathetic losers without a clue". Chances are they only think about doing something terroristic because some FBI provocateur suggested it to them and will be providing fake explosives and the like.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Zuckerberg has some serious delusions of grandeur. He was in the right place at the right time to pinch someone else's idea. He was able to promote it and make a lot of money out of it.
That doesn't mean he's an expert on everything under the sun. His opinion on most things is worth no more than the typical slashdotter's and he doesn't know more than the proverbial bloke at the pub.
P.S. Hey manishs, you fucked up the quotes again.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
So you don't read any non-tax funded news-sites then, you know the ones ran by news corporations?
But honestly, it's facebook's decision to decide whether or not they want their platfrom to be used in distribution of non-factual/made up 'news'. I personally do not get my news from FB but I've seen the amount of entirely made up 'news' from blogs that have been shared in the recent years. A simple thing that I've seen repeated time and time again here is this: someone files a report about an immigrant committing some crime, usually theft or assault. The yellow-press then runs this with a headline along the lines of 'Immigrant man under investigation for crime X'. Then some nationalist blog made up to look like a news site runs an article with the headline "yet another immigrant crime, man from *insert country* harassed a teenager.", then, to appear more credible they link to the previous article about an ongoing investigation.
These spread like wildfire on social media because the headlines are usually shocking and they pander the the preconceived notions and fears that people have, and nobody bothers to check what the source actually says. If you point out in the comment section that the guy has not in fact been convicted of anything and it's an ongoing investigation (you know, innocent until proven guilty and all that) you get attacked for being 'on their side' or 'defending criminals', nevermind that no crime has of yet been proven to take place. If the guy is convicted it's trumpeted again as evidence of how all brown people are dangerous criminals and/or terrorists. If charges are not raised at all or he's found to be innocent, no correcting stories are run.
There are several sites operating mainly using this principle, many of them receiving funding or support from Russia, which is taking advantage of the immigrant crisis here in Europe to stir up xenophobia and nationalism because a divided and weakened EU is to their benefit. RT is a common 'source' used by these sites, Many of them also cross-link to each other, so that a blog being run in sweden is used as source by blog here in Finland. The traditional media obviously does not report on unsubstantiated rumors which is then further used as 'evidence' that the media is involved in some sort of massive 'cover-up' by not immediately reporting everything someone decided to blog about,
This is what 'alternative facts' mean, and personally having seen how fast these things can spread even after officials come out and issue corrections, I don't mind social media trying to do something about these sites' visibility, because without the massive speed/inertia that they gain by quick shares and likes they'd be in near obscurity. They are only damaging public discourse, because it's now impossible to even try and have a rational discussion with many of these people as they will not accept any news or reporting from the 'corrupted mainstream media' as evidence that they've in fact been duped by propagandists and ideologues. As a test, reporter from a newspaper submitted a story about being attacked by a foreigner(s) last summer and it was immediately published even though no source or evidence was presented. They'll pretty much run everything that serves their agenda, because that's what propaganda is.
I see no reason why facebook should allow this to keep happening. They already censor stuff like nudity and gore out, and I don't see nudity and gore anywhere near as dangerous to the society as made up 'news'.
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" -Alfred North Whitehead
The Dickian "pre-crime" possibilities of knowing everything someone looks at or talks about on the net is so obvious that I assumed that everyone knew it was coming, so my only surprise in reading this story is that Zuckerberg slipped up, even momentarily, and admitted that's what he was working towards.
Speaking as a guy who uses Facebook entirely to push my novels, Facebook seems to be a major contributor in the breakdown of community. I've got hundreds of "friends," know next to nothing about them, have never met them, and have no plans to meet them. We're not building communities; we're building audiences for our inane momentary thoughts and pics of the really cool fish tacos we had last night. As a somewhat shy and asbergery child I had only a few, but really close, friends. My nephew, about as nerdy as I was, has hundreds of Facebook friends, and never leaves his home to actually meet people. I admit, it's emotionally less risky for him to make "friends" through Facebook, but I hope he doesn't mistake them for a community in any real sense.
I bet that China LOVES this idea! No censors... just AI that will do the job in a way that it will censor unwanted content "nobody would have flagged at all". That is totalitarian dream! Great ways to put AI to use for the benefit of mankind. Mark, congratulations for your achievement.
I am sure we will hear about this technology soon but we may not like the news.
Well, I've got to get back to work. When I stop rowing, the slave ship just goes in circles.
Nobody seems to have keyed into the fact that the article implies Facebook is planning to run content analytics and conceptual clustering algorithms across all of their databases. Databases including "private" conversations.
Having seen first hand what 5+ year old analytics tools can pull out of seeming disparate data sets, I find this both amazing and frightening.
They key quote from the summary is this one...
The "long-term promise of AI," he wrote, is that it can be used used to "identify risks that nobody would have flagged at all...
When you let an "AI" build concept clusters based on linguistic analysis, and then pattern match to find similarities, you will open Pandora's box to all sorts of unexpected correlations.
I know very little to anything about him. However, I think this entire story is such shit.
yes, he's a multi-billionaire and the CEO of a huge company.
All he did was post some information that was rattling around in his head - which EVERYONE seems to think is absolutely a necessary thing to do these days.
Then, he thought better of one sentence, and removed it.
And people lose their fucking minds and consider that to be NEWS worthy of reporting on. It's all asinine.
It's not important. It really isn't.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Sargon of Akkad did a video explaining the Pewdiepie situation very well. Sadly the only people who want to learn are people who don't know him (like me) or get information from the far left who started the petitions, threats, etc... Those people are stuck in confirmation bias, so will simply call Sargon a [insert_ism/obe]. People who knew him already knew this was coming so don't need the lesson.
I "almost" agree that Youtube has become a better source of information than broadcast "news", but probably for different reasons. There are a few people I subscribe to and follow, but most of the time I use that information to find sources. It takes me 5 minutes to read a transcript versus 5 minutes to read someone's analysis of a transcript. When the majority of media ignores information that does not fit a narrative and cherry picks for an agenda, my time is better spent with the actual source making up my own mind.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
The bird logo is twitter, isn't it?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."