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A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy

posted by takyon on Thursday February 15 2018, @01:14AM   
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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• Re:This is a good thing Re:This is a good thing (Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday February 15 2018, @01:37PM (1 child)

  by looorg (578) on Thursday February 15 2018, @01:37PM (#638224)

  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.

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• Re:This is a good thing (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday February 15 2018, @03:25PM

  by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday February 15 2018, @03:25PM (#638256) Journal

  Yeah, but they can review the take before they do the next guy. And allah help the cameraman who repeats his mistakes!

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  La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..

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