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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 looorg on Thursday February 15 2018, @01:34PM (2 children)

    by looorg (578) on Thursday February 15 2018, @01:34PM (#638223)

    From what I have seen of terrorist propaganda and recruitment videos they tend to not show their actual faces, balaclava and sunglasses etc seems to be the norm. I guess they could have a few different sets -- if they talk a lot about Allah and infidels and all the virgins you get to have sex with then they are muslim terrorists, if they talk about killing whitey and crackers they are some kind of black supremacists, if they talk about black helicopters and how the government wants to take the guns away and how ZOG controls us all then I guess they are white supremacists. If they talk a lot of about potatoes, protestants and the Queen then the IRA has risen and split again for the umpteenth time to the really really REAL IRA (I might have missed one or two really there ... it's hard to keep track).

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:30PM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:30PM (#638241) Journal

    And what if they talk about how Allah comes in a black helicopter to take the guns away from the Queen because he needs them to kill the infidel whitey, while the protestant ZOG controls all the virgins who want to have sex with potato crackers? :-)

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    • (Score: 3, Touché) by ewk on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:43PM

      by ewk (5923) on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:43PM (#638244)

      Then praise Brian, because Monty Python has reunited :-D

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