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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, @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

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