Meta has revealed it\u2019s tested using AI for content moderation chores and found it does better than humans.<\/p>\n
The social networking giant on Thursday announced<\/a> it has started a global rollout for its Meta AI support, a tool that handles tasks like password resets, reporting dodgy content, explaining content takedowns and allowing appeals, or managing privacy settings.<\/p>\n The company also said \u201cOver the next few years, we will deploy more advanced AI systems across our apps to transform our approach to content enforcement, more accurately finding and removing severe content violations like scams and illegal content, so people see less of them.\u201d<\/p>\n Early experiments have delivered promising results: one AI tool detected and mitigated 5,000 attempts at scamming users to reveal their passwords every day. Meta says its human teams could not detect those scams.<\/p>\n Another AI helped to reduce the number of reports users lodged about fake celebrity profiles by over 80 percent. Other tests doubled detection of adult sexual solicitation content that violates Meta\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n Meta says its AI can also \u201cPrevent an account takeover by noticing it was suddenly accessed from a new location, the password was changed, and edits were made to the profile.\u201d The company says those changes \u201clook harmless to a person reviewing the account, but AI was able to recognize as a threat.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s an odd observation given that numerous enterprise security products can detect \u201cimpossible travel\u201d such as a single user logging in from London and an hour later requesting a password reset from San Francisco, and flag it as a likely attack.<\/p>\n Meta also enthused that AI can \u201cDetect a fake site spoofing a legitimate web address and pretending to be a popular sporting goods store by noticing the real logo being used with unusually low prices and a suspicious web address,\u201d because AI \u201cdrove down views of ads with scams and other serious violations by seven percent, offering promising results and better protections for users and brands.\u201d<\/p>\n Again, that\u2019s a nice outcome, but also a little odd as fake ads are a known problem \u2013 and one to which Meta has often been indifferent.<\/p>\n Your correspondent once spotted a suspicious ad for a brand that publishes lists of its legitimate URLs. The ad led to a spoof site, so I made a report to Meta \u2013 which replied that the fake site was not in violation of its policies. The company ignored my reply that pointed out the URL was not on the brand\u2019s list of official sites.<\/p>\n Leaving the metaverse<\/p>\n Meta\u2019s march toward AI came in the same week as it walked away from the metaverse, its vision for immersive online communities.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, the company announced<\/a> the shutdown of Horizon Worlds, its metaverse platform.<\/p>\n That decision meant owners of Meta\u2019s Quest VR goggles would have a lot less content to consume. The company later walked that back and promised to continue offering some of its immersive environments but said it would not create new ones.<\/p>\n Meta adopted its current name to reflect founder Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s belief that the metaverse was the next big thing, and spent over $80 billion on its ambitions over five years \u2013 a period when we can now see its content moderation for Facebook and Instagram was going badly, and children were often harmed<\/a> by the company\u2019s products.<\/p>\n The company now plans to develop something it calls \u201csuperintelligence,\u201d and is spending tens of billions more to make that happen. \u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta has revealed it\u2019s tested using AI for content moderation chores and found it does better than humans.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-485769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}