Facebook and YouTube take action against QAnon — but they’re fighting a losing battle

Oct19
by on October 19, 2020 at 8:32 am
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Recent decisions by Facebook and YouTube to crack down on the far-right conspiracy theory movement known as QAnon will disrupt the ability of dangerous online communities to spread their radical messages, but it won’t stop them completely. The announcement by Facebook on Oct. 6 to take down any “accounts representing QAnon, even if they contain no violent content,” followed earlier decisions by the social media platform to down-rank QAnon content in Facebook searches. YouTube followed on Oct. 15 with new rules about conspiracy videos, but it stopped short of a complete ban. This month marks the third anniversary of the…

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Why training neural networks comes with a hefty price tag

Oct18
by on October 18, 2020 at 9:00 am
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In recent years, deep learning has proven to be an effective solution to many of the hard problems of artificial intelligence. But deep learning is also becoming increasingly expensive. Running deep neural networks requires a lot of compute resources, training them even more. The costs of deep learning are causing several challenges for the artificial intelligence community, including a large carbon footprint and the commercialization of AI research. And with more demand for AI capabilities away from cloud servers and on “edge devices,” there’s a growing need for neural networks that are cost-effective. While AI researchers have made progress in reducing the costs of…

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You influence recommendation algorithms just as much as they influence you — here’s how

Oct17
by on October 17, 2020 at 9:00 am
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Have you ever watched a video or movie because YouTube or Netflix recommended it to you? Or added a friend on Facebook from the list of “people you may know”? And how does Twitter decide which tweets to show you at the top of your feed? These platforms are driven by algorithms, which rank and recommend content for us based on our data. As Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, Boston, explains: If you want to know when social media companies are trying to manipulate you into disclosing information or engaging more, the answer…

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