INSIDE GOOGLE’S INTERNET JUSTICE LEAGUE AND ITS AI-POWERED WAR ON TROLLS
So, apparently, over at Google, they're trying to fix the trolling problem by
applying artificial intelligence to solve the very human problem of making people be nicer on the Internet.
I'm rooting for them all the way. Someone needs to figure this out. I mean, I wish there was a largely troll-free safe space on the web, where I could go and read great articles AND the comments without having to sift through stupidity, abuse, and harassment.
It seems like I've heard of something like that. There was something about decentivization or incentralization or cryptocurrents or something that I read somewhere, I just can't put my finger on where it was. Anybody know what that might have been? I Googled "troll free zone" but nothing seemed to resemble what I read before. Oh, well.
Oh, and Google is also trying to stop censorship with AI, according to the article. Now, shutting people up while letting people express themselves does seem a bit counterintuitive, but I think I get what they're saying, because I read about this very thing, but with a different method called "immunabiblity" or something, which is done through a "blogchain," I think it was called. But Wired doesn't mention these terms in the article. I guess they're common knowledge? They go without saying? I don't think Wired would fail to mention them on purpose.
Whatever the mystery tech on the tip of my tongue is, it seems likely that Google will eventually happen upon it in their quest to rid the Internet of harassment and censorship. But there is the possibility that Google's own "Conversation AI"
could take down its own share of legitimate speech in the process.
Accidentally, of course. AI isn't perfect yet, after all. So it only makes sense that this section of the article has been hidden from view for violating Google's free speech and/or online harassment policies.
And eventually, the AI will be perfected, and legitimate free speech will never be censored again. Unless, of course, it's this section of the article has been hidden from view for violating Google's free speech and/or online harassment policies.
You see what I'm saying?
google = skynet