In March 2019, a shooter live-streamed on Facebook his brutal killing of 50 people in two mosques in New Zealand. It was viewed about 4,000 times and was not shut off until 29 minutes after the attack.1 The video was then uploaded to other platforms and was viewed millions of times.
Yes, this was a stark example of how AI can fail in a horrible way.
In a blog post, Facebook’s VP of Product Management, Guy Rosen, noted:
AI systems are based on ‘training data,’ which means you need many thousands of examples of content in order to train a system that can detect ...
