Meta says AI content was less than 1% of fact-checked election-related misinformation on its apps during major US, UK, Indian, Indonesian, and other elections
At the start of the year, there were widespread concerns about how generative AI could be used to interfere in global elections to spread propaganda and disinformation.
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Discussion
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@sigraff
Stuart G
on bluesky
(1/2) Librarians moderate content for a living, classifying information that enters a collection for reliability/credibility. High quality information joins the general collection; other information may be rejected or enter a special collection (like propaganda). Why not pay li…
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@sigraff
Stuart G
on bluesky
(2/2) the sources they, as a group, consider credible and automate flagging info from those sources as such, while identifying other sources as unknown, not credible, or even as propaganda based on existing library collections. Seems like this shouldn't be hard.
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@kint
Jason Kint
on bluesky
This laundered message from Clegg and Zuckerberg may well be tested in short order in South Korea. I'm fairly confident Facebook will stand up to any censorship demands here. I have less confidence Musk would stand up to a Trump administration in a similar situation. Keep that…
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@karaswisher
Kara Swisher
on bluesky
So they bang back and forth causing damage either way and looking like a suck up all the time to whatever the power is at the time, changing course cloddishly and opportunistically.
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@karaswisher
Kara Swisher
on bluesky
They are ham-fisted for sure since they don't like the difficulty and responsibility of business they are actually in, which is media, as much as they pretend it is not because it makes bank for them. www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24...
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@katienotopoulos
Katie Notopoulos
on threads
Ah yes, this announcement is all about correcting the over-calibration that happened 4 years ago with Covid and not Zuck's dinner with Trump one week ago https://www.theverge.com/...
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@andymstone
Andy Stone
on threads
if memory serves, Katie, there are plenty of examples of mistaken over-enforcement from the past years, some of which I think you may even have written about!
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@katienotopoulos
Katie Notopoulos
on threads
I take this at face value! They've already said they want to loosen up pandemic moderation. But I also wouldn't completely rule out the @willoremus effect (loud/annoying news types who don't usually post written content to Meta products encountering the lousy moderation for the…
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@kevinroose
Kevin Roose
on threads
they really think everyone is so dumb!
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@florian4gamers
Florian Mueller
on x
This data point from Meta (AI < 1% of election misinformation) is telling and actually supports Sen. @tedcruz's letter to the DOJ, in which he says (among other things) that this is one of the excuses to regulate U.S. companies in Europe: https://aifray.com/...
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r/technology
r
on reddit
Meta says it has taken down about 20 covert influence operations in 2024