If I told you that I could swim to the middle of the river and stop the current just by putting my arms crossed, you wouldn’t believe me, would you?
Well, it’s the same thing when the bosses of Facebook say that they are capable of cleaning up the gonzillions of texts and photos that are published every day on their social media.
They say anything.
Basically, they can’t do anything.
They are overwhelmed.
- Listen to the Durocher-Dutrizac meeting broadcast live every day at 12:35 p.m. via QUB radio :
THE MACHINE TO GRIND REPUTATIONS
Look what happened to lawyer Jean Berthelot.
He published a photo of his daughter who, as part of a humanitarian mission in Africa, was photographed with small children who were walking naked in the streets of their village, as often happens in developing countries. development.
However, Facebook made a report and the lawyer was accused of possession of child porn.
The algorithms used by Facebook to “filter” the photos published on Mr. Berthelot’s site never took into account the context in which these photos were taken.
A photo shows naked children? It’s child porn!
We made a report to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, who called the police, who showed up at the man’s house and arrested him.
Good luck, afterwards, in setting the record straight!
Once the reputation crushing machine starts, it’s hard to stop it.
Even when the suspect is cleared of all suspicion three years later, there will always be someone who says that there is no smoke without fire.
That’s what an algorithm is.
It has no intelligence, no judgment, and it shows no discernment.
It works by keywords.
He’s like a CBC executive.
All it takes is for a journalist to say it – in a meeting! – the title of a book containing the word “negro” so that the machine goes into overdrive, the reporter is called racist and thrown out, despite her previous feats of arms and her many years of loyalty services.
And we’re talking about artificial intelligence!
Artificial stupidity, yes.
Or, in the case of the CBC, bureaucratic stupidity.
Photo Agence QMI, Mario Beauregard
ARTIFICIAL STUPIDITY
I have lost count of the number of times I have been “barred” from Facebook for spreading hate speech.
While I DENOUNCED hate speech!
But the machine was unable to differentiate between “We must kill the Jews” and “Look how stupid this man is, he says we must kill the Jews!”
In this case, let’s accuse the charities of child porn which, as part of their fundraising campaign, show little Africans naked with big protruding bellies and flies around their eyes!
The reality is that Facebook is as effective at “filtering” its content as SAAQ programmers are at finding the right wire to connect their PlayStation.
And wait, it’s nothing.
Thanks to certain software, we can now take a photo of anyone and paste it on the head of a porn actor in action.
Long live progress…