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Re:Alphabet’s hate-fighting AI doesn’t understand hate yet by Govindae on Monday August 21, 2017 @10:04AM (#15064695)
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.

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Re:Alphabet’s hate-fighting AI doesn’t understand hate yet by belovedeagle on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:25PM (#15067554)
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.
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Re:Alphabet’s hate-fighting AI doesn’t understand hate yet by etplayer on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:40PM (#15068070)
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...
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