What can possibly go wrong?
Facebook can't root out fake news and hate talk, but – oh look – it has software to catch bugs
Facebook may have to hire people to police the content coursing through its social network, but software looks to be sufficient to hunt down bugs in its mobile app code. On Thursday, the information-harvesting biz revealed but did not release SapFix, a debugging tool that relies on artificial intelligence to suggest fixes for …
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Sunday 16th September 2018 21:13 GMT Anonymous Coward
I tyhink fake news would be much harder to check for, than figuring out where and when the bug occurred, especially when you have access to the binaries and source. Then it's probably a matter of reverting those lines (assuming they knew the line number) or reverting the whole file. Failing that it seems to use a lookup of sorts to fix it similar to previous fixes.
Fake news would probably require more advanced artificial intelligence to understand what the post is saying and compare that to what it knows.
Hate talk should be easier to look into, but would again likely need to understand semantics of language and to differentiate humour (say, racism between friends) and actual hate speech.
Not that I am condoning FB, I've seen racist anti-white comments on a group which I flagged up,but nothing seemed to have happened. But we shouldn't cloud our judgement because it's FB.