Networked censorship isn't like censoring TV and radio. It's not censoring big media.
It's about AIs censoring our conversations. Limiting what billions of us can say to each other down to what they, and only they, allow us to say.
It's here.https://t.co/YPApTxJpgU?
— John Robb (@johnrobb) December 5, 2019
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki tells Lesley Stahl what the video platform is doing about hate speech in an interview Sunday on the CBS newsmagazine program ’60 Minutes.’
Wojcicki told ’60 Minutes’ that Google employs 10,000 people to focus on “controversial content.” She described their schedule, which includes time for therapy. Stahl also said there are reports that the “monitors” are “beginning to buy the conspiracy theories.”
“What we really had to do was tighten our enforcement of that to make sure we were catching everything and we use a combination of people and machines,” Wojcicki explained. “So Google as a whole has about 10,000 people that are focused on controversial content.
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