Artificial intelligence (AI) used by governments and the corporate sector to detect and extinguish online extreme speech often misses important cultural nuance, but bringing in independent factcheckers as intermediaries could help step up the fight against online vitriol, according to Sahana Udupa, professor of media anthropology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.
Factcheckers who operate independently of large media corporations or social media companies can shape and use AI to go beyond keywords to help locate context-specific patterns, according to Prof. Udupa. This is because they are trained to pick up disinformation and extreme speech is a very close cousin of that, she says.
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While it was nowhere near as big as its television version, the dire wolf was about 20% larger on average than the gray wolf, and it was long considered a sister species, Canis dirus, rather than Canis lupus.
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January 18, 2021
PARIS (AFP) – Prehistoric dire wolves made famous by the TV series
Game of Thrones prowled the Earth for thousands of years before being wiped out at the end of the Ice Age.
Known as
canis dirus – ‘fearsome dog’ – they hunted down and feasted on large mammals, so when species such as giant bison went extinct dire wolves lacked prey, contributing to their decline.
But a study published last Wednesday in
Nature points to another reason the top predators may have died out around 12,000 years ago after lording over the food chain for nearly a quarter of a millennium – their inability to breed with other wolf species.