AI removes 95% of offensive Facebook posts

Facebook has spent several years creating an AI-based algorithm that can quickly find and

delete offensive posts on social medianetworks. The company notes that the technology can now detect 95% of content without the intervention of live moderators. However, the remaining 5% is difficult to determine and the company is now trying to figure out how to remove them too.

Facebook reported that their AI system detected94.7% of posts (22.1 million publications) that contained hate speech were all automatically deleted in the third quarter of 2020. This is much more than before - in the same quarter a year ago, AI was able to find only 80.5% of posts (6.9 million publications) that contained hate speech. The company also published these figures in the Community Standards Enforcement Report.

Like many other social networks, weWe rely on AI to help our moderation team make it easier to find inappropriate posts. It's a difficult, never-ending task to constantly remove unwanted user messages and advertisements. But the difficulty is that only people can distinguish a work of art from an erotic photograph, and a subtle joke from insults. But soon AI will be able to do this for moderators.

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Researchers note that the most challenging contentfor AI it is one that is based on memes and clues that the model does not define. Facebook is currently working on detecting hateful memes. In the spring of 2020, the company released a publicly available dataset related to such content in the hopes of helping researchers improve their detection capabilities. As an example of content that may cause inconvenience to other users, they showed a meme that depicts a cemetery with the text "here you belong."

Artificial intelligence (AI) was unable to determine that this is offensive content. However, a few more years of training will allow the algorithm to understand why this humiliates some users.

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