Can AI Solve the Content-Moderation Problem?
'Content moderation is one of the crucial issues of our day and it is essentially broken,' says Carolina Are, a researcher at the Center for Digital Citizens at Northumbria University in the U.K. One major difficulty is that different users have different ideas about what should be prohibited online. Are swear words fair game? Nudity? Violent imagery? In the Cato survey, 60% of users said they wanted social-media platforms to provide them with greater choice to pick and choose what they see and what they don't.
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