Social media AI can only be blind? It is a new generation of counter-terrorism

2024-08-21 09:01:24

Introduction: AI started to enter various industries, and new media has also been integrated into our daily lives. What kind of chemical reaction will AI and new media combine? Let us wait and see.

Not long ago, Facebook just fired up human editors, and automatic news was blinded. It published an article on the Oolong News that Fox News fired the famous host Megyn Kelly and called it a "traitor." This shows that AI technology is not yet mature, but in addition to talking about it, do you know that it is still a new generation of counter-terrorism?

In the course of innovation and constant renewal, we have spent the second decade of the 21st century and the future looks bright and better than ever. The new website and social media tools will help us to better communicate and respond more effectively to serious challenges such as terrorism.

However, it is worth mentioning that the ages of some algorithms are still in their infancy, and the programs in the virtual world are sometimes not smart enough. This is an early warning signal. Technology companies need to take into account the right to freedom of expression, and even the desirability of artificial intelligence surpasses human â€œeditingâ€ to control the flow of information.

Why not simply use humans, but use machines to supervise our posts, microblogs, website content, and other things? ISIS is a good example. Terrorist organizations and social media sites are fighting desperately to make themselves into the lives of contemporary and younger generations. Thousands, or millions of bits of publicity have been thrown into the Internet's information stream, with hundreds of millions of images, messages, remarks, and rumors. Recruitment videos, beheading images, and even flashy movies all threaten Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. ISIS and its members have released a lot of such bad information into social media.

Electronic tactics

Using persistent and global electronic tactics to deal with these cruel criminals often requires reviewing billions of text messages, posts, websites, and pictures that make up the World Wide Web, and require algorithms to constantly â€œpatrolâ€ each other across the web.

At the beginning of the year, major companies started their actions:

Â· Twitter announced: has "harmony" of the more than 125,000 accounts associated with the ISIS.

Â· Facebook has also deleted the post and frozen its account.

Â· Google and YouTubeâ€™s affiliates have launched aggressive actions to block content submitted by extremists.

So, a few days later, the target of ISIS threatening video points to Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg.

However, blessings and misfortunes depend on one another, and some behaviors more or less do not abide by the promise of â€œfreedom of speechâ€. Machines and methods can only be as good as those who create and direct them, and technology alone cannot guarantee freedom.

For example, you may have seen an international newsletter saying: Facebook's automatic decision system blocked the photos of Pulitzer Prize winners. There is a young girl in the photo, and the naked face faces the camera and runs on the road. The images posted by several Norwegians have also been removed because it violates the big rules of social media about nudity and pornography.

If you look at the photo from the mechanical eye, everything will become clear. Positive full nude, child porn, confirmed, then deleted.

The picture is a photo of the photographer Nick Ut who won the Pulitzer Prize. The person in the photo is Phan Thi Kim Phuc. In 1972, in Vietnam, when she was 9 years old, she was screaming from a napalm assault by USwarplanes. get away.

On September 10, Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg said in a letter to Norwegian Prime Minister â€œFacebook has recovered photos on their homepageâ€: â€œWe can't guarantee that it will always be correct.â€ As for the reasons for restoring photos, Sandberg explained: â€œ Although this picture apparently conflicts with global community standards, it is 'global and historic'. Although screening millions of posts each week is challenging, we still plan to do better. â€

This is a good thing but not a guarantee

Facebook and the U.S. social media community are not bound by the First Amendment.

The First Amendment expressly provides:

â€œProhibits the United States Congress from enacting any laws to establish state religion; hinder freedom of religious belief; deprive freedom of speech; violate freedom of the press and freedom of assembly; and interfere with or prohibit the right to petition the government.â€

As private enterprises, they have the right to make their own decisions on overall standards. In any case, the amendment applies only to a small part of the United States that is engaged in immediate interaction with the global community. Google, Facebook, Twitter, and others insist that they are merely "technical" companies and that content does not seem to be something they need to consider.

However, it is incumbent to the social media giants to â€œdo betterâ€ in considering and defending freedom of expression. The tremendous influence on our lives has enabled them to achieve the status of â€œquasi-governmentâ€, and freedom is its core and must be protected. A report from the Pew Research Center and the Knights Foundation found that 63% of Facebook and Twitter audiences view them as major news providers.

Fight against terrorism

Even if the government turns to social media companies to help fight terrorism, there are also concerns that blocking tactics will have a negative impact. Eliminating a civilized world may require shocks and fears to be seen; full understanding of enemy depravity; limiting peopleâ€™s ability to fully understand and discuss events similar to recruitment videos; and making possible ISIS supporters close the screen into an untrackable state, which may even hinder Work to anti-terrorist forces.

Human editors must always form a balance in news reporting. We need to get rid of those manipulations that only consider self interest groups, especially when it comes to media groups. However, in history, this balance is more toward "news," and the amount of information is more, not less.

More and more social media have made use of online editors to make the same decision that users in their "community" should insist that there is no countable code and autonomous orders, at least to comply with the 45th Chinese characters expressed by the First Amendment. Electronic spirit.

Via:DecaturDaily