The algorithms that detect hate speech online are biased against black people

[Dashinka 23,247]

Platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are banking on developing artificial intelligence technology to help stop the spread of hateful speech on their networks. The idea is that complex algorithms that use natural language processing will flag racist or violent speech faster and better than human beings possibly can. Doing this effectively is more urgent than ever in light of recent mass shootings and violence linked to hate speech online.

But two new studies show that AI trained to identify hate speech may actually end up amplifying racial bias. In one study, researchers found that leading AI models for processing hate speech were one-and-a-half times more likely to flag tweets as offensive or hateful when they were written by African Americans, and 2.2 times more likely to flag tweets written in African American English (which is commonly spoken by black people in the US). Another study found similar widespread evidence of racial bias against black speech in five widely used academic data sets for studying hate speech that totaled around 155,800 Twitter posts.

This is in large part because what is considered offensive depends on social context. Terms that are slurs when used in some settings — like the “n-word” or “#######” — may not be in others. But algorithms — and content moderators who grade the test data that teaches these algorithms how to do their job — don’t usually know the context of the comments they’re reviewing.

 

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/8/15/20806384/social-media-hate-speech-bias-black-african-american-facebook-twitter

[TBoneTX 43,059]

Well, I'll be a son of a beehive.

[Dashinka 23,247]

48 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

Well, I'll be a son of a beehive.

I mean is this surprising considering that that there are different definitions of hate speech depending on someone’s genetic background?

Edited October 1, 2019 by Bill & Katya

[luckytxn 2,263]

If it is hate speech for someone than it is hate speech for all. You will be assimilated by a Socialist society.

[TBoneTX 43,059]

It's pretty much always been true that members of the same ethnic/racial/religious group can joke "derisively" about themselves without derision.

[luckytxn 2,263]

7 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

It's pretty much always been true that members of the same ethnic/racial/religious group can joke "derisively" about themselves without derision.

Yes but it has always been true that other ethnicity could tease each other about it. 

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,315]

Detroit police chief pushes back against Rashida Tlaib's suggestion to only hire black facial recognition analysts

 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/detroit-police-chief-responds-to-rep-tlaib

 

 

[Dashinka 23,247]

23 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

Detroit police chief pushes back against Rashida Tlaib's suggestion to only hire black facial recognition analysts

 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/detroit-police-chief-responds-to-rep-tlaib

 

 

This was all over local media yesterday.  Amazing. 

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,315]

16 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

This was all over local media yesterday.  Amazing. 

surely he will be deblacked 

[Dashinka 23,247]

29 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

surely he will be deblacked 

The DPD Chief is really an even keeled guy from the interviews I have heard.  He is doing good things there, and you rarely hear about Detroit anymore relative to crime, etc.  Of course there are still issues there just like any medium to large city, but Detroit is nothing like Chicago.

[TBoneTX 43,059]

Is the esteemed Congresswoman facing a primary or general-election challenger?