The Technology 202: Notre Dame cathedral fire reveals tech companies' struggle to combat misinformation
to quickly stop the spread of violent videos of the terrorist attack in New Zealand last month — underscore how this technology is still error-prone and unreliable.“At this point, nothing beats humans,” David Carroll, an associate professor of media design at the New School in New York and a critic of social media companies, told my colleagues. “Here’s a case where you’d be hard pressed to misclassify this particular example, while the best machines on the planet failed.
“They have to depend on these algorithms, but they all have sorts of failure modes. And they can’t fly under the radar anymore,” Domingos told Drew and Craig. “It’s not just Whac-a-Mole. It’s a losing game.”
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