Facebook Is ‘a Toilet,’ Fails to Contain Hate Speech in Myanmar | Social…
On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver examined Facebook’s failed efforts to control hate speech in Myanmar – from inept banning practices to subpar…
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Machine-learning system tackles speech and object recognition
MIT computer scientists have developed a system that learns to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image. Given an image and…
Machine-learning system tackles speech and object recognition, all at once…
MIT computer scientists have developed a system that learns to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image. Given an image and…
Detectors for online hate speech can be easily duped by humans, study shows…
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How Google Perspective rates a comment otherwise deemed toxic after some inserted typos and a little love. Credit:…
Microsoft touts AI, circular microphone advances in overlapped speech…
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At the Interspeech 2018 conference in Hyderabad, India, this week, Microsoft researchers will be talking up…
Facebook’s new Rosetta AI system helps detect hate speech Tech| Social
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says artificial intelligence will be a big part of cleaning up the social network of hate speech. James Martin/CNET Facebook says…
Current tech for detecting hate speech is woefully inadequate, researchers…
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Exactly what constitutes hate speech is one of the most hotly contested topics in 2018. One of the reasons it is so…
Hate speech, collusion, and the constitution | Social
Half an hour into their two-hour testimony on Wednesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey were…
Justice Dept. says social media giants may be ‘intentionally stifling’ free…
The Justice Department has confirmed that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has expressed a “growing concern” that social media giants may be “hurting…
Facebook: We’ve removed hundreds of posts under German hate speech law |…
Facebook and other social networks could be subject to fines in Germany over hate speech and fake news. Sergei Konkov/TASS Facebook has deleted or blocked 362…