Facebook is working on a new AI to flag offensive material in live videos as part of its growing reliance on AI to monitor its content. The company has had issues with content moderation, making its current reliance on user reports inefficient. The AI algorithm will detect nudity, violence or other offensive material such as extremist content, which has already been the target of the company’s automation tool development. In an interview with TechCrunch, Facebook’s head of global policy management, Monika Bickert, said that the social network was looking at ways it could use machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to
Facebook is working on a new AI to flag offensive material in live videos as part of its growing reliance on AI to monitor its content. The company has had issues with content moderation, making its current reliance on user reports inefficient. The AI algorithm will detect nudity, violence or other offensive material such as extremist content, which has already been the target of the company’s automation tool development. Facebook is also using automation to process the millions of reports it gets each week to filter duplicates, and aims to use AI to filter out fake news such as the material spread before the US election.