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

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

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, @02:30AM (2 children)

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:30AM (#638028) Journal

    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.

    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...

    • Don't plan a script; just ramble. Say "uh" and "um" frequently. For bonus points, ramble for more than 20% of the video and say "oh, yeah..." and go back on-topic.
    • Don't plan your cinematography. In fact, that's too big a word. Don't plan "what you are going to do with the camera thingy." In every video, say "Um, I am going to try to get this from here" or something equally insipid, telegraphing not only your ineptitude, but your lack of recognition of same. Alternately, you could say "I don't know if you can see this, but..." Same reasons.
    • Whatever you do, don't say anything materially on topic until at least 50% into the video. You should not be planning ahead, so you should never know when you are 50% in, but it should work out that way.
    • Lighting? Composition? For losers.
    • Audio clarity? Focus? Also for losers.

    Given the popularity of YouTube "stars," Today's terroristic propaganda agent is entering a market with a bar set very, very low.

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:36AM (1 child)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:36AM (#638031) Journal

    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.

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    La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
    • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Thursday February 15 2018, @03:15AM

      by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 15 2018, @03:15AM (#638053) Journal

      They focus too much on content, and not the quality of that content.

      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