Facebook Wants You To Believe Its Ai Is Working Against Hate Speech
While the technology did work in some cases, we’ve also seen glaring failures. After the Christchurch shooting, for example, Facebook wasn’t able to quickly remove the video. Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal published a new report indicating Facebook’s AI can’t identify first-person shooting videos and racist rants consistently. Plus, there was a bizarre incident where the algorithm wasn’t able to separate cockfighting and car crashes. The report noted that the firm’s AI only detects a small part of hate speech posts on the platform, and removes a few of them....