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posted by takyon on Thursday February 15 2018, @01:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the extreme-algorithm dept.

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The UK-based company ASI Data Science unveiled a machine learning algorithm Wednesday that can identify terrorist propaganda videos with 99 percent accuracy.

This development marks one of the first instances of a company successfully using A.I. to flag extremist propaganda. The Islamic State group is notorious for its social media recruiting efforts, and this algorithm could help curtail them.

While the researchers at ASI wouldn't discuss any technical specifics of the algorithm, it appears to work like other kinds of A.I. recognition software. The algorithm can examine any video and determine the probability that the video is a piece of extremist propaganda. According to the BBC, the algorithm was trained on thousands of hours of terrorist recruiting videos, and it uses characteristics from these videos to assign probability scores.

Source: https://www.inverse.com/article/41273-uk-company-creates-algorithm-to-flag-propaganda


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  • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Thursday February 15 2018, @01:42AM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 15 2018, @01:42AM (#638003) Journal

    I can only assume... It simply flags everything and/or cheats.

    I hope the NSA network omnipresent-omnioppressive algorithms work that way too. It's important once in a while to say things like president, allahu akbar, bomb, cell, all words or phrases with innocent uses but which you'd think they would flag for study later. Killer technique against intelligence targets to sprinkle that stuff in online forums, etc. Stand with me, my brothers.

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