Stefan Mileschin

One in every 2000 posts still contain it

Social notworking site Facebook’s Guy Rosen, who has the unfortunate title of head of integrity, admitted that one in every 2,000 content views on Facebook still contained hate speech from April to June of this year.

Rosen said that the figure was better than mid-2020 when one in every 1,000 content views on Facebook were hate speech. But, it is still pretty grim when executives insisted that artificial intelligence software would address the company’s chronic problems keeping what it deems hate speech and excessive violence as well as underage users off its platforms.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook’s AI can’t consistently identify first-person shooting videos, racist rants and even, in one notable episode that puzzled internal researchers for weeks, the difference between cockfighting and car crashes.

On hate speech, the documents show, Facebook employees have estimated the company removes only a sliver of the posts that violate its rules — a low-single-digit percent, they say. Moreover, when Facebook’s algorithms aren’t confident enough that content violates the rules to delete it, the platform shows that material to users less often — but the accounts that posted the material go unpunished.

https://fudzilla.com/news/ai/53710-f...op-hate-speech