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To figure out a way how do we police that, how do we prevent somebody like this streaming live on their platform for more 17 minutes a massacre with gunfire and death and weaponry. and weve heard a lot from mark zuckerberg and facebooks executives given how much scrutiny they have been under with disinformation and hate speech about all the steps they have been taking to try to crack down on this. they say they have hired more than 30,000 contractors and employees to try to human moderators to s...

Down but once many of the users, thousands of them, recorded it all shared it among their friends, whatever, it goes viral. and its still out there. lauren simonetti, gary kaltbaum and dan gill trued. you know, lauren, they cant control it. its pretty clear -- >> i wish i had a better answer for you. its depressing. millions and millions of dollars on human moderators, artificial intelligence, and what can they do? for the live streaming part of social media, they can do what we do here at fox n...

Back to our breaking news. 49 people are dead and dozens more are injured in an attack on two mosques in new zealand. disturbing aspect of this deadly attack, a shooter appears to have live streamed the whole thing on facebook. the disturbing and graphic video lasts nearly 17 minutes. it has not been verified yet by cnn but facebooks artificial intelligence tools and its human moderators did not detect this live stream. facebook was alerted to it by the new zealand police and removed the shooter...

Couple years. jack dorsey will also talk about the need for transparency, but mark zuckerberg preempted sandbergs visit in the "washington post" saying weve made a lot of progress, but companies like facebook face well-funded, sophisticated adversary who are getting smarter over time, but he says it will take the forces of the private and public sectors to protect americas democracy. are we seeing a combined effort? will we in the future? >> i think we are seeing a combined effort in the sense t...

That are we dealing with censorship? are there fears and uncharted territory that we could be taking away the ability of free speech at this point? >> that is the fear, based on how the artificial intelligence is created for social media platforms to flag account that could be fake personas and thousands of human moderators make the call, you have to be careful personal biases dont play into saying this much be a fake persona because this is a ridiculous point of view. that is where companies ne...

Conducting itself before. >> well, it really does. they have beefed up their artificial intelligence operation so theyre using technology to target key words to locate locate content that is terrorism related or nudity related. theyre using human moderators now. theyve hired more staff to review content and find hate speech. that is a little bit more nuanced. you need to have someone with cultural -- to understand the cultural nuance to be able to identify hate speech. >> they say they disabled ...

Score, youre using the word toxicity. would hate be a good substitute for that. >> its interesting so we are experimenting with lots of different ai models. we began with toxicity because it was the easiest to measure based on the training data but were also exploring a sheen learning models that return a score of how insubstantial it is or how off-topic it is. we are experimenting with lots of things. i think what you said is important, when i tell people about this one of the first things they...

Score, youre using the word toxicity. would hate be a good substitute for that. >> its interesting so we are experimenting with lots of different ai models. we began with toxicity because it was the easiest to measure based on the training data but were also exploring a sheen learning models that return a score of how insubstantial it is or how off-topic it is. we are experimenting with lots of things. i think what you said is important, when i tell people about this one of the first things they...

Youre literally giving them a score, youre using the word toxicity. would hate be a good substitute for that. >> its interesting so we are experimenting with lots of different ai models. we began with toxicity because it was the easiest to measure based on the training data but were also exploring a sheen learning models that return a score of how insubstantial it is or how off-topic it is. we are experimenting with lots of things. i think what you said is important, when i tell people about thi...

"why have they been found to not violate guidelines or probably found "to not violate guidelines?" and he said that was a mistake, that the technology was marking these comments as "benign" which meant that they werent being followed up for a human review and they werent being taken down. he said that this technology is now being fixed and that instagram was taking all of these reports very seriously and that they would be following them up properly. well, i think that we know this has been an i...