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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 15 2018, @06:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 15 2018, @06:27AM (#638108)

    You forget, you can only be a terrorist if you lose.

    So yes, any pathetic little group is always terrorists, no matter what they do. ISIS are clearly extremists whackoes bent on terrorism, but there are others, better examples. For example, Cuba has been listed as a state sponsor of terrorism for a long time, yet it's the US that's preventing real terrorists from going to jail. Cuba requested extradition numerous times. For decades.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubana_de_Aviaci%C3%B3n_Flight_455#FBI_and_CIA_knowledge [wikipedia.org]

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