I hope Scomo is aware that social networks already contract the work of content moderation out to other companies. These companies employ people in sweatshop conditions to make decisions based on nebulous 'community standards'. They already witness so many horrific things in the course of their work that they are mentally scarred, resort to aberrant behaviour themselves to cope, and lose all support whatsoever if they quit.
Insistence that the social networks do more will not improve the situation for these people.
AI to remove revenge porn is a start, but it is not enough. There are reports of low-paid workers employed by contracted companies to work in pressure-cooker environment screening everything that goes up on facebook ending up mental and emotional wrecks because of the work. And yet, they still get criticised for missing stuff. What these people go through to make facebook clean enough for us to use is appalling. If facebook will not pay and support these people adequately and cannot automate the removal of it they are profiting from human suffering.
I have long wanted the books by Greg Cox to be made into a TV series for two reasons: 1. It is centered on 20th century Earth, and has minimal alien involvement and only Kirk's influence from the future. 2. It can truly start with a clean slate.
I have Parkinson's disease. It affects people differently.
I use speech recognition productively, but in advanced cases, the speech of the person with PD can be adversely affected. If this is the case, computer speech recognition is not going to help.
Here in Hobart, Tasmania, I wince every time I go to a medical facility because many of them are still using PCs running Windows XP. I have yet to see one running a currently supported version of Windows. I expect an event like the one reported in the article any day now.
I use my iPad to read in bed, I always turn the brightness way down when reading, but I notice that how soon I go to sleep varies depending on the reading material. The right book can put me to sleep before I reach the end of the page. I recommend it as a means to go to sleep. Most books from O'Reilly will do it for me.
*Assuming you ARE reading, not watching videos, or playing games, or anything else.
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I hope Scomo is aware that social networks already contract the work of content moderation out to other companies. These companies employ people in sweatshop conditions to make decisions based on nebulous 'community standards'. They already witness so many horrific things in the course of their work that they are mentally scarred, resort to aberrant behaviour themselves to cope, and lose all support whatsoever if they quit. Insistence that the social networks do more will not improve the situation for these people.
AI to remove revenge porn is a start, but it is not enough. There are reports of low-paid workers employed by contracted companies to work in pressure-cooker environment screening everything that goes up on facebook ending up mental and emotional wrecks because of the work. And yet, they still get criticised for missing stuff. What these people go through to make facebook clean enough for us to use is appalling. If facebook will not pay and support these people adequately and cannot automate the removal of it they are profiting from human suffering.
I have long wanted the books by Greg Cox to be made into a TV series for two reasons: 1. It is centered on 20th century Earth, and has minimal alien involvement and only Kirk's influence from the future. 2. It can truly start with a clean slate.
I have Parkinson's disease. It affects people differently. I use speech recognition productively, but in advanced cases, the speech of the person with PD can be adversely affected. If this is the case, computer speech recognition is not going to help.
Clearly the terrorists have won! The basis of encryption is math. Ban math. No more Al-gebra!
Here in Hobart, Tasmania, I wince every time I go to a medical facility because many of them are still using PCs running Windows XP. I have yet to see one running a currently supported version of Windows. I expect an event like the one reported in the article any day now.
I use my iPad to read in bed, I always turn the brightness way down when reading, but I notice that how soon I go to sleep varies depending on the reading material. The right book can put me to sleep before I reach the end of the page. I recommend it as a means to go to sleep. Most books from O'Reilly will do it for me. *Assuming you ARE reading, not watching videos, or playing games, or anything else.
God! Didn't God create the problem at the Tower of Babel incident? Being able to translate languages freely sticks it to the god!