Researchers develop algorithm to scan for “misogynistic” tweets

Dogrose22 · 2020-08-30T17:25:22+00:00

What would be interesting and useful is to include the gender of the person posting misogynistic tweets - I sure I’ve seen a study/ statistic that shows women post the highest number of misogynistic/ bullying social media posts directed at other women.

d_nijmegen · 2020-08-30T17:03:06+00:00

I hope some guys adapt it to find misandry too. That's going to give some interesting statistics

RyansPutter · 2020-08-31T03:23:57+00:00

The kids at 4chan are just going to find a way to screw with it. I remember a few years back Microsoft created a Twitter bot named Tay and within a few hours, the 4chan trolls turned her into a trash-talking, racist, sexist, sexually-explicit neo-Nazi before Microsoft pulled the plug.

RingosTurdFace · 2020-08-30T22:15:02+00:00

I wonder if it could identify a Tweet like “Kill all men” as offensive or are they just focussed on trying to constantly prove women are victims despite obvious, widespread and outright hatred of men?

2020-08-30T22:15:49+00:00

"Researchers"

BMoney8600 · 2020-08-30T16:55:54+00:00

What the hell?

Francis_Dollar_Hide · 2020-08-30T23:16:19+00:00

*Achem:
https://www.businessinsider.com/half-of-the-sexist-harassment-women-face-on-twitter-comes-from-women-2016-5

2020-08-31T00:13:35+00:00

let me guess anything thats not licking the boots of women will be labelled as such?

LegendaryEmu1 · 2020-08-31T03:47:12+00:00

Didn't they already do this for racist stuff and found minorities were way more racist?

And didn't they do it for the word 'slut' and found women used it way way more than men?

I guess its round 3 of trying to make everything white men's fault?

In Australia, scientists at the Queensland University of Technology...

God dammit my country, why!?

The team hopes social media platforms could adopt the technology.

From one million, there then remained 5,000 tweets.

According to the team, their system can identify misogyny in tweets with an accuracy level as high as 75%.

...Please no, and thats not very much, roughly 0.005% of tweets mention that...out of a million. Doesn't sound like much of a problem, and definitely not one you need an AI that won't function to work on.

But 75% is really really shit. To begin with, what constitutes misogyny? Today, telling a woman to fuck off, could be considered misogyny. Its THEIR definition of misogyny and its probably horribly inaccurate.

“At the moment, the onus is on the user to report abuse they receive. We hope our machine-learning solution can be adopted by social media platforms to automatically identify and report this content to protect women and other user groups online,”

...Oh no...personal responsibility, how scary. How would this help? Does the youtube algorithm function properly, something that has been worked on for years by one of the most profitable companies in the world?

No, no it does not. This would definitely cause more problems than fix, for sure. One thing no AI can do is tell what is satire and what is not.

Why this is being funded is beyond me.

MRA-Sid · 2020-08-31T18:38:18+00:00

Feminists are authoritarian. No doubt.

VeritasDitum · 2020-08-30T17:26:47+00:00

And for that reason EVERY intelligent tweet will be flagged...

Title	Researchers develop algorithm to scan for “misogynistic” tweets
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Date	August 30, 2020 4:55 PM UTC (5 years ago)
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