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Re:Facebook employs hundreds of young Filipinos to remove of... by dirtylowprofile on Sunday May 28, 2017 @03:21AM (#14433444)
I think if they do have automations, they wouldn't outsource it here to us. Plus employing an additional 3,000 is not giving me any belief that they do have some filtering mechanisms.
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Re:Facebook employs hundreds of young Filipinos to remove of... by mahyarm on Sunday May 28, 2017 @04:08AM (#14433512)
They definitely do and are working on it. But it's not perfect and eventually you need human judgement. Even if it's just for the initial data training set.
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