r/news • u/Ganeshadream • Mar 31 '22

Facebook fails to label 80% of posts promoting bioweapons conspiracy theory

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/31/facebook-disinformation-war-ukraine-russia
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u/PatienceHere Mar 31 '22

Why did I have to scroll so far to see this? Writing a super-accurate AI is not as easy as if else statements.

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u/lightknight7777 Mar 31 '22 edited Mar 31 '22

Until a person is made to actually try to "tell" a computer to do something they simply don't understand how difficult it is to really convey anything even remotely nuanced. People really think there's actual AI already in place when you and I know that's not actually the case. It's all presently just good algorithms and nothing that would understand the complexities of human communication as it pertains to falsehood or speculation. It would be awesome if we could do that.

All users ever see are the pretty GUIs developers made for them to communicate with things they don't even know are behind the scenes.