Facebook To Use New Ai-Based System To Moderate Content
Facebook will use a new system based on artificial intelligence to streamline the content moderation process. This new dynamic will complement the work of human moderators, as it will help them to focus more quickly on the most important issues.
This new system will allow moderators to take quick action in urgent cases, as AI will do a previous job being in charge of the “moderation queue”.
Facebook post reports can have different motives, ranging from spam to content that violates platform rules, so not all are treated in the same way. Some are moderated automatically by applying a certain action (for example, removing the publication), and in serious cases, are queued for moderation.
As mentioned in The Verge, reports are arranged chronologically as they emerge on the platform. And in that way they reach out to human moderators, so publications that need urgent attention may not be treated that way.
This will be fixed with the new Facebook AI system. When a post is reported, Facebook machine learning algorithms will be responsible for evaluating this report and prioritizing posts taking into account a number of criteria, for example, they mention virality, if it violates the rules or its severity.
In this way, moderators will be able to treat reports of the most harmful publications in the shortest possible time. One of the keys to keeping the platform safe.
