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Re:Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight I... by Maarten88 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @10:48AM (#25507410)
Yes, also it's incredible how it is possible to fully automatically recognize and block music and video's, and go after and punish the perpetrators, but this seems wholly impossible for blatant disinformation and lies on the same websites.

When there is money at stake, laws en enforcement can accomplish things that are unthinkable when it is at the expense of the common good.

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Re:Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight I... by Mindwipe on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @11:39AM (#25508091)
Not really?

Recognition of an exact pattern is computationally very easy. Examination of often subjective truths is objectively very hard?

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Re:Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight I... by Maarten88 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @12:46PM (#25508987)
I'm sure that, given the right incentives, that 'objectively very hard problem' would be 95% solved very quickly.

Of course there are corner cases that are really hard, but that is no different than audio/video recognition, where a 95% solution (that also has many imperfections) gets forced on users anyway.

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Re:Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight I... by Mindwipe on Thursday December 24, 2020 @01:07PM (#25529801)
> I'm sure that, given the right incentives, that 'objectively very hard problem' would be 95% solved very quickly.

I'm sure that it's basically impossible. I think it's impossible even with full, proper general intelligence AI at scale, and that won't happen in my lifetime even if humanity collectively downs tools and works on nothing else.

Facebook has thrown a lot (lot lot) of resources at this, and it's clearly totally ineffective.

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