Comment by thesausageking
6 years ago
Facebook has one of the strongest AI research groups in the world led by Yann LeCun. They could build models that are quick good at finding all of these and similar versions.
And it doesn't need to be perfect. If you're an employee who may face severe repercussions if you mention unions, are you going to risk your job based on whether the filter catches your post?
The best AI in the world cannot currently understand the political and cultural context. Make up a slang and you win.
But the cost to process every single message with a powerful AI just to censor bad words would be way too much.
> And it doesn't need to be perfect. If you're an employee who may face severe repercussions if you mention unions, are you going to risk your job based on whether the filter catches your post?
You are conflating censoring and detecting. This is en different matter entirely which would necessitate a whole new debate.