{"id":106999,"date":"2020-05-13T07:02:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T14:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/facebook-trains-ai-on-hateful-memes"},"modified":"2020-05-13T07:02:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T14:02:20","slug":"facebook-trains-ai-on-hateful-memes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/facebook-trains-ai-on-hateful-memes","title":{"rendered":"Facebook trains AI on \u2018hateful memes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-trains-ai-on-hateful-memes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington (AFP) \u2014 Facebook unveiled an initiative Tuesday to take on \u201chateful memes\u201d by using artificial intelligence, backed by crowd sourcing, to identify maliciously motivated posts.<\/p>\n<p>The leading social network said it had already created a database of 10,000 memes \u2014 images often blended with text to deliver a specific message \u2014 as part of a ramped-up effort against hate speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese efforts will spur the broader AI research community to test new methods, compare their work, and benchmark their results in order to accelerate work on detecting multimodal hate speech,\u201d Facebook said in a blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington (AFP) \u2014 Facebook unveiled an initiative Tuesday to take on \u201chateful memes\u201d by using artificial intelligence, backed by crowd sourcing, to identify maliciously motivated posts. The leading social network said it had already created a database of 10,000 memes \u2014 images often blended with text to deliver a specific message \u2014 as part of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}