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The New York Times Is Expanding Comments With the Help of Google's AI (recode.net)

Posted by msmash on from the AI-to-rescue dept.

An anonymous reader shares a Recode report: The New York Times says it is going to expand the availability of online comments from 10 percent of articles to 80 percent by the end of the year, without adding more moderators to its staff. How are they going to do this? With a machine-learning algorithm, of course. The Times today is rolling out a new structure of comment moderation using software from Google called Perspective, developed by the company's incubator, Jigsaw. The Moderator tool will automatically approve some comments and help moderators wade through others more quickly.

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  1. New York Times - the Last Diagnosis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A dying paper that serves only to misinform an ever-dwindling readership. Google's AI will probably recommend euthanasia for it.