Facebook Inc (FB.O) is working on automatically flagging offensive material in live video streams, building on a growing effort to use artificial intelligence to monitor content, said Joaquin Candela, the company’s director of applied machine learning. 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. 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