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A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy

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

MrPlow writes:

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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: 4, Interesting) by requerdanos on Thursday February 15 2018, @01:44AM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 15 2018, @01:44AM (#638004) Journal

    And then it became really good at telling you which are extremist propaganda, e.g. any video where women don't wear Burqas, any video featuring music, any video showing Christians and Jews not get beheaded, as well as any video featuring any elected person.

    I remember an anecdote wherein an AI got really, really good at identifying pictures of tanks (military track-driven vehicles). Until later they noted that it was really mostly just discerning whether the pictures had been taken in cloudy or sunny conditions, which aligned with their test image set pretty well.

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