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From a media standpoint: frontline comment moderation. It would take a lot of the legwork out of filtering for advertisements, uncivil discussion, attacks, off
by 52-6F-62 9y ago
From a media standpoint: frontline comment moderation. It would take a lot of the legwork out of filtering for advertisements, uncivil discussion, attacks, off topic posts, and trolling.
I believe NYT does this already, but using minimal oversight to prevent any edge case misses or false positives.
Presently there’s not much in the way of suitable options for large media that build their modules in house. At the same time media tends to prefer to not invest too heavily in hardware if they don’t have to. Convincing leadership of using a cloud service to train an AI/ML model sounds leaner and lets them tick off even more buzzwords for the executive, etc. That said, results from efforts in the aforementioned application sound promising.
- obmelvin 9y agoFor those who want to read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/insider/have-a-comment-leave-a-comment.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/insider/have-a-comment-le... [not particularly techincal, but given the GP seemed to be skeptical about real world use I think this is still appropriate]
- 52-6F-62 9y agoThanks! Coming from a company isn't currently implementing anything like this (you'll find many do not as of yet), it would help a great deal to improve the quality of the content which is an obvious precursor to ad impressions and subscriptions— especially for media companies who do not introduce [hard/any] paywalls.