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AI Still Useless at Catching Hate Speech, Research Finds (theregister.co.uk)
New research has shown just how bad AI is at dealing with online trolls. From a report: Such systems struggle to automatically flag nudity and violence, don't understand text well enough to shoot down fake news and aren't effective at detecting abusive comments from trolls hiding behind their keyboards. A group of researchers from Aalto University and the University of Padua found this out when they tested seven state-of-the-art models used to detect hate speech. All of them failed to recognize foul language when subtle changes were made, according to a paper [PDF] on arXiv. Adversarial examples can be created automatically by using algorithms to misspell certain words, swap characters for numbers or add random spaces between words or attach innocuous words such as 'love' in sentences.
That's because all of the learning/reasoning software that we proudly call AI is not AI at all.
Yes it is.
It's just a series of pattern recognition and reasoning operations ...
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Uhm... but that would make those systems AI and you just said they weren't, so now you're pulling a "Trump" and contradicting yourself within a single statement.
Ah! I see the confusion! You don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
By "true" AI, I guess you mean "general AI" of human intelligence? Actual AI encompasses a LOT more than that.
In other words, hate speech filters are not likely to start working any time soon.
No trolling here! My point is that "hate speech," as currently defined, is little more than a toddler-like mentality that says "I don't like it so it should be banned." I'm not saying that people don't say hateful things. I'm saying that if you agree with banning speech that you disagree with, then you stand against the first amendment.