The line between hate and banter

• Autores: Douglas Heaven
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3147, 2017, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It's no secret that the internet has a problem with hate speech. But automated attempts to clamp down on it have mostly failed, because it's too slippery a concept to define for computers. Now, a new way of identifying the subtle linguistic fingerprints of hate speech--and separating it from benign uses of similar words--could finally help people crack down on the worst offenders. Neither human nor automatic hate-speech detection have been effective. Earlier this year, Google tried to assign comments a "toxic" score on the basis of how similar they were to phrases people had previously deemed offensive. However, the shortcomings overwhelmed the positive effects.