{"id":1797,"date":"2020-12-16T06:16:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T06:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1332023"},"modified":"2020-12-16T06:16:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T06:16:12","slug":"facebook-is-reportedly-developing-ai-to-summarize-news-what-could-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"Facebook is reportedly developing AI to summarize news \u2014 what could go wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Facebook has been trying to get a foothold in the news space for many years. Last year, the company launched a dedicated section on its site called Facebook News<\/a> for users in the US. It also wants to expand this program to other countries such as Brazil, Germany, and India.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not the only project the social network is working on in the news space. According to a report from BuzzFeed News, Facebook is testing an AI-powered tool called TL;DR<\/a> (Too Long; Didn\u2019t Read) to summarize news pieces, so you don\u2019t even have to click through to read those articles.<\/span><\/p>\n

The report noted that the company showed off this tool in an internal meeting last night. It\u2019s also planning to add features such as voice narration and an assistant to answer queries about an article.<\/p>\n

At the outset, this seems like a great idea \u2014 getting a short summary of an article you don\u2019t have time to read, right. There are already some similar tools such as the AutoTLDR bot on Reddit<\/a>. However, given Facebook\u2018s sketchy history<\/a> with news and publishers<\/a>, there are many ways this could go wrong.<\/p>\n

At best, the AI makes silly mistakes in parsing the article content, so you can\u2019t make sense of the summary it spits out<\/span>. After all, We\u2019ve seen many incidents where bots picked out problematic portions of content<\/span> from their training algorithms<\/a> and spewed racist gibberish<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At worst, there\u2019s potential to create or distribute misinformation. There are a ton of news sources on Facebook that are not known for their accuracy. If a skewed summary of those articles starts floating around, it might create more trouble.<\/p>\n

Facebook will also need to train its algorithm to avoid taking quotes or sentences from articles out of context. A seemingly non-problematic summary could be contradicting the article or the subject and vice versa.<\/p>\n

In the past, researchers have successfully tricked AI systems that are designed to detect toxic comments on the internet<\/a> with \u2018positive\u2019 words. If the people behind propaganda operations could crack Facebook\u2019s algorithm for summarizing articles, they could write stories in such a way that the summaries include the messages they want to spread.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many<\/a> reports<\/a> have pointed out the social network\u2019s massive misinformation problem, and a lot of it was because of poorly designed software. While Facebook\u2019s TL;DR product is not public yet, it already sounds like it could be a disaster.<\/span><\/p>\n

Published December 16, 2020 \u2014 06:16 UTC <\/p>\n

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