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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
(Score: 4, Funny) by fustakrakich on Thursday February 15 2018, @01:54AM (7 children)
If there is one thing today's Terrorist Propaganda suffers from, it's lack of subtlety, and of course, poor quality, bad composition, can't hold a steady shot, too much lead in, sometimes cutting out before the climax, wind noise(!), just all sorts of things. With all this 4K stuff out now, I expect better work from these people. And speak English, okay? Put a little effort into the script.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:05AM (1 child)
They obviously try to make it big by imitating the most watched type of video on the internet.
(Score: 3, Informative) by SpockLogic on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:10PM
I'll be impressed when they identify this YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/NRAVideos/ [youtube.com] as dangerous propaganda. They are responsible for the death of thousands of Americans annually, another 17 in Florida yesterday.
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:30AM (2 children)
At first I thought you were talking about YouTube "stars."
If there is a book on how to become huge on YouTube, it will have to cover topics like...
Given the popularity of YouTube "stars," Today's terroristic propaganda agent is entering a market with a bar set very, very low.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:36AM (1 child)
Given the popularity of YouTube "stars," Today's terroristic propaganda agent is entering a market with a bar set very, very low.
Yes, and I do blame youtube for that. They focus too much on content, and not the quality of that content. They should ban poor work, not poor taste.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Thursday February 15 2018, @03:15AM
And you would think that people in general would say "Maybe I can't say what makes a bad video, but I know one when I see one."
I really thought this would be a force, millions of people who perhaps had never held a video camera (other than their cell phone*), but who had seen enough well-made television and movies to be able to tell quality from crap, predominantly choosing quality, even if they couldn't say exactly why.
I was very, very wrong. Maybe it's an age-culture thing.
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* Possibly the problem
(Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday February 15 2018, @01:37PM (1 child)
It's so hard to do multiple takes -- when you yell cut they do and once the head comes off there is just no gluing it back on a again just like with Humpty Dumpty.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday February 15 2018, @03:25PM
Yeah, but they can review the take before they do the next guy. And allah help the cameraman who repeats his mistakes!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..