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This New Way to Train AI Could Curb Online Harassment
For about six months last year, Nina Nørgaard met weekly for an hour with seven people to talk about sexism…
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Admit It: The Facebook Oversight Board Is Kind of Working
Judging from the press releases filling my inbox and the tweets lighting up my timeline, no one is happy with…
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Don’t End Up on This Artificial Intelligence Hall of Shame
When a person dies in a car crash in the US, data on the incident is typically reported to the…
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These Ex-Journalists Are Using AI to Catch Online Defamation
The insight driving CaliberAI is that this universe is a bounded infinity. While AI moderation is nowhere close to being…
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Twitter’s Photo Crop Algorithm Favors White Faces and Women
Last fall, Canadian student Colin Madland noticed that Twitter’s automatic cropping algorithm continually selected his face—not his darker-skinned colleague—from photos…
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Everything You’ve Heard About Section 230 Is Wrong
These hallowed 26 words shield internet companies from being held responsible for what people post and share. But the web’s…
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Trump’s Facebook Ban Is Upheld—For Now
The Facebook Oversight Board is often described as a “Supreme Court” for Facebook. On Wednesday, it acted like it—issuing a…
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It Began As an AI-Fueled Dungeon Game. It Got Much Darker
OpenAI said the service would empower businesses and startups and granted Microsoft, a hefty backer of OpenAI, an exclusive license…
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On Social Media, American-Style Free Speech Is Dead
For the first time in human history, we can measure a lot of this stuff with an exciting amount of…
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New Vaccine Conspiracy Theories Are Going Viral in Arabic
Bill Gates is dressed as the Joker. His hair is fluorescent green, his face painted white and his elongated smile…
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