
Google to ramp up AI efforts to ID extremism on YouTube - janober
https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/19/google-to-ramp-up-ai-efforts-to-id-extremism-on-youtube
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tyingq
Earlier related discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14583017](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14583017)

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frenchie4111
"expanding counter-radicalisation efforts by working with (other Alphabet
division) Jigsaw to implement the “Redirect Method” more broadly across
Europe. “This promising approach harnesses the power of targeted online
advertising to reach potential Isis recruits, and redirects them towards anti-
terrorist videos that can change their minds about joining. In previous
deployments of this system, potential recruits have clicked through on the ads
at an unusually high rate, and watched over half a million minutes of video
content that debunks terrorist recruiting messages,” says Walker."

Does them performing this kind of intentional manipulation, and having such
success, scare the shit out of anyone else?

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pawadu
How about employing real people this time, google?

Your previous efforts to police crafty humanss using AI has utterly failed.
Just look at adsense and play store.

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Klathmon
There is something like a decade of video uploaded to YouTube every day.

Even if you employed entire countries you still wouldn't stand a chance at
reviewing it all.

Automated systems are the only way it can function at all.

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pawadu
> Automated systems are the only way it can function at all.

Not in its current form. Google with all its might hasn't even managed to
remove those "work from home for $$$" youtube comments.

Google doesn't have a good way to incorporate human intelligence (users) into
its AI. Pure AI has no chance against an army of highly adaptable humans.

