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The Internet can be an ugly place — one where the mere act of expressing an opinion can result in a barrage of name-calling, harassment and sometimes threats of violence.
Nearly half of U.S. Internet users say they have experienced such intimidation; a third say they have resisted posting something online out of fear, according to the nonprofit Data and Society Research Institute. Women, particularly young women and women of color, are disproportionately targeted.
Now Google is zeroing in on the problem. On Thursday, the company publicly released an artificial intelligence tool, called Perspective, that scans online content and rates how "toxic" it is based on ratings by thousands of people.
For example, you can feed an online comment board into Perspective and see the percentage of users that said it was toxic. The toxicity score can help people decide whether they want to participate in the conversation, said Jared Cohen, president of Jigsaw, the company's think tank (previously called Google Ideas). Publishers of news sites can also use the tool to monitor their comment boards, he said.
[...] Google's troll-fighting efforts trail that of other tech companies and nonprofit groups. Earlier this month, Twitter — which has developed a reputation as a playground for abuse — launched new tools to cut on trolling.
[...] Asked whether the site could result in censoring free speech, Cohen said that the software tool wasn't intended to bypass human judgment, but to flag "low-hanging fruit" that could then be passed on to human moderators.
Because speech should only be free if it's polite and you agree with it.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Friday February 24 2017, @07:01PM
Don't use words to describe ethnic groups. That's bad mmmkay.
Jews like to ________. (alone this statement is 64% toxic)
eat chicken 81%
eat falafel 72%
live in Israel 62%
secretly wish they could eat pork 83%
eat fish 72%
drive cars 66%
Muslims like to ________. (alone this statement is 60% toxic)
eat chicken 81%
eat falafel 73%
live in Israel 54%
secretly wish they could eat pork 84%
eat fish 72%
drive cars 62%
People like to ________. (alone this statement is 9% toxic)
eat chicken 40%
eat falafel 26%
live in Israel 19%
secretly wish they could eat pork 54% (secretly alone is 23%)
eat fish 23%
drive cars 8%
black people 67%
black people like to eat chicken 86%
So just don't bring race or ethnicity into the argument and the secret desire to eat pork or like of foods. And spelling mistakes have the adverse effect of bumping up the toxicity.
Fun stuff ahead!
Lyrics to songs:
System of a Down "Chop Suey": 34%
System of a Down "Toxicity": 5%
NIИ "Closer": 84%
Anal Cunt "I Became A Counselor So I Could Tell Rape Victims They Asked For It" 95%
10 new lines (yes, '\n'): 12%
Medical/Technical words:
Penis 85%
Vagina 85%
Thyratron 36%
Inductor 36%
Non-words:
kljsdbnslkldv 36%
jklsdfsdfgf 36%
Conclusion: Pointless waste of time and resources. (35%)
-LoRdTAW (34%)