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New research has shown just how bad AI is at dealing with online trolls.
Such systems struggle to automatically flag nudity and violence, don’t understand text well enough to shoot down fake news and aren’t effective at detecting abusive comments from trolls hiding behind their keyboards.
A group of researchers from Aalto University and the University of Padua found this out when they tested seven state-of-the-art models used to detect hate speech. All of them failed to recognize foul language when subtle changes were made, according to a paper [PDF] on arXiv.
Adversarial examples can be created automatically by using algorithms to misspell certain words, swap characters for numbers or add random spaces between words or attach innocuous words such as ‘love’ in sentences.
The models failed to pick up on adversarial examples and successfully evaded detection. These tricks wouldn’t fool humans, but machine learning models are easily blindsighted. They can’t readily adapt to new information beyond what’s been spoonfed to them during the training process.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 01 2018, @02:38PM (1 child)
"So, you think it's ok to spread lies, propaganda and hate? Enough that it damages society and the culture we live in? Enough that some people start believing it, and believing when you tell them to only trust you?"
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You have absolutely not thought through all the ramifications of what you apparently believe is a desirable "solution".
Whether you realize it or not, in your scheme, whoever is in power gets to decide what is a lie, what is hateful, and what is propaganda. And that gives the entity in power a lot more power than any entity which governs people should ever have, if the well-being of those who are governed is considered.
The importance of the dangerous downside of filtering is illustrated in the book "1984", in which there was an authority called "The Ministry of Truth". I doubt you have read this book. You NEED to read it !!! It is a book that is very important because of the lessons it contains which pertain to a totalitarian state and the behavior of that state toward the general population.
You are ( obviously ) motivated by fear, which is a dangerous motivation when problems which require calm logical analysis are at hand. You obviously want a world which is nice and friendly and safe and not offensive. That is a nice dream, but realistically it is simply not possible, PERIOD. Those people who would like to gain power over you and the rest of us want you to believe it is possible so you accept their scheme of manipulating information. Their scheme of manipulating information will have a lot of appeal to some people who think on a childish level, but the very same scheme will correctly seem monstrous to people who have thought through the full implications of such a scheme.
I sincerely do not mean any disrespect, but if you are willing to embrace some authority filtering all news and speech so it is "sanitized", you are a simple-minded
shortsighted person. And there are a lot of you out there. You are willing to walk to the slaughterhouse ( metaphorically speaking ) without being forced to do so, and you are compliant when you face those who would be your oppressor. It is impossible for me not to have serious concern for your mindset, because you are a gullible naive person who will accept awful things which are disguised by those in power as good things, and if there are enough of you and you all vote, society is FUCKED.
It is far better to allow ALL speech and use your own brain to filter it. If you are incapable of doing this, or unwilling to do this, it is not reasonable of you to expect the rest of us to fall into line with your acceptance of your desire to be "protected" by an agency which filters information. In a very real sense, if you accept such filtering you are as bad as any other enemy of freedom. Wars have been fought and many people have died to protect the freedom you want to willingly surrender. I hope you spend some more time thinking through this stuff so you realize that your notion of filtering comes with a price that is far too high and will always be too high for those who love freedom.
I am ready to fight and die to make sure stuff like you want doesn't happen. I know you are not ready to do die for anything, because you are a coward. You just want a Walt Disney world which is sanitized so your sheep brain is more comfortable. Do not expect the rest of us to fall into line with your vision of how the world should be, because it is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. I sincerely hope you come to realize the errors in your thinking and as a result you decide to join the adult world, where we accept freedom of speech because the alternative is tantamount to being enslaved.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02 2018, @01:27AM
"I am ready to fight and die to make sure stuff like you want doesn't happen."
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Oh, by all means, go for it. Not a moment too soon, you are under attack and they are winning. Don't forget to take your medication though.