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Facebook upgrades its AI to better tackle COVID-19 misinformation and hate speech

Facebook’s AI gear are the one factor status between its customers and the rising onslaught of hate and misinformation the platform is experiencing. The corporate’s researchers have cooked up a couple of new features for the techniques that stay the adversary at bay, figuring out COVID-19-relat…
Facebook’s AI tools are the only thing standing between its users and the growing onslaught of hate and misinformation the platform is experiencing. The company’s researchers have cooked up a few new capabilities for the systems that keep the adversary at bay, identifying COVID-19-relat…

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Author: Devin Coldewey

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Devin Coldewey has recently written 10 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have failed their task of monitoring and moderating the content that appears on their sites; what’s more, they failed to do so well before they knew it was a problem". (July 29, 2019)
  2. "Understanding what makes something offensive or hurtful is difficult enough that many people can't figure it out, let alone AI systems. And people of color are frequently left out of AI training sets". (August 15, 2019)
  3. "The digitally face-swapped videos known as deepfakes arent going anywhere, but if platforms want to be able to keep an eye on them, they need to find them first. Doing so was the object of Facebooks Deepfake Detection Challenge, launched last year". (June 12, 2020)
  4. "An independent investigator has issued a preliminary report on its work determining the existence and/or extent of bias against conservatives on Facebook". (August 28, 2019)
  5. "Image and video manipulation powered by deep learning, or so-called “deepfakes,” represent a strange and horrifying facet of a promising new field". (September 16, 2019)
  6. "Facebook will soon add labels to news outlets owned or otherwise controlled by a government, marking that information as, if not necessarily false or unreliable, at least worth considering the origin of. Those so labeled will also be banned from buying ads starting this summer". (June 4, 2020)
  7. "Facebook has challenged the FTCs antitrust case against it using a standard playbook that questions the agencys arguably expansive approach to defining monopolies". (March 10, 2021)
  8. "If AI-powered robots are ever going to help us out around the house, they're going to need a lot of experience navigating human environments". (June 14, 2019)
  9. "If we're going to map the world, we're not going to do it with ever-greater volumes of elbow grease. There's just too much work to do". (July 24, 2019)
  10. "It's a bit strange to hear that the world's leading social network is pursuing research in robotics rather than, say, making search useful, but Facebook is a big organization with many competing priorities". (May 20, 2019)
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