Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism – by Matt Taibbi

Technologists are in love with new AI tools, but they don t always know how they work. Machines may be given a review task and access to data, but how the task is achieved is sometimes mysterious. In the case of Naked Capitalism, a site where even comments are monitored in an effort to pre-empt exactly these sorts of accusations, it s only occasionally clear how or why Google came to tie certain content to categories like Violent Extremism. Worse, the company may be tasking its review bots with politically charged instructions even in the absence of complaints from advertisers.

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