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How can an algorithm determine whether content is political or not? Sure you can naive filter for a list of political urls but it won't catch most of them.
by throwaway48476 2y ago
How can an algorithm determine whether content is political or not? Sure you can naive filter for a list of political urls but it won't catch most of them.
- onlyrealcuzzo 2y agoOn one hand, we have HNers telling us that AGI is already here. On the other hand, we think that we can't effectively classify the majority of posts.
- throwaway48476 2y agoOn the third hand we have a VC backed startup selling AI content filtering with a backdoor advertising deal.
- int_19h 2y agoYou don't even need GPT-2 level AI to classify tweets.
- red-iron-pine 2y agoyeah simple sentiment analysis is a basic 4th year undergrad / master's level project. can be easily done by one person, and with a fairly good level of accuracy and key-word tagging. emphasis on "fairly good", but diminishing returns and all that.
- freejazz 2y agoYeah, must be a coincidence that people are seeing a lot of alt-right stuff!
- chipdart 2y ago> How can an algorithm determine whether content is political or not? For starters, cross-referencing it with popular propaganda talking points. Smear campaigns are a dead giveaway, and adding two or three topics should be enough to cover the majority of propaganda posts. I'd argue that just having an effective anti-bot policy is enough to render this a non-issue, but apparently Elon Musk prefers Twitter to be a Kremlin bot sandbox.