Re:Alphabet’s hate-fighting AI doesn’t understand hate yet
by Govindae on Monday August 21, 2017 @10:04AM
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This is a general NLP problem. People use language in more complicated ways than direct literal encoding. In the general case, it's a very hard problem, but hate specifically may not be so difficult.
People tend not to use phrases like "kill all the" in unambiguous ways.
Re:Alphabet’s hate-fighting AI doesn’t understand hate yet
by belovedeagle on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:25PM
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However, a significant (not large, significant) proportion of Americans believe that the phrase "kill all the Nazis" is not hate because <reasons>, or at least is "justified hate", whatever that means.
Re:Alphabet’s hate-fighting AI doesn’t understand hate yet
by etplayer on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:40PM
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Although it's clearly hate, it is regarded as justified for reasons which some people agree with; a good read on this, from which I got the idea about the "subversive element" of society is Marcuse's essay Repressive Tolerance (1965), which you can find here: http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/65repressivetole...
You are correct, I didn't consider this, so there at least two problems with deciding what is hateful: (1) is the expression insincere?, (2) if it is sincere, is the hate justified?
This is of course assuming such a machine can be designed to obtain the correct meaning of words in every case, which I think is impossible or close to it. Language is ambiguous, some languages more than others.