The Turing Podcast
The Turing Podcast
The Alan Turing Institute
How good is AI at detecting online hate?
58 minutes Posted Jul 2, 2021 at 2:59 pm.
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AI is widely lauded as a way of reducing the burden on human online content moderators. However, to understand whether AI could, and should, replace human moderators, we need to understand its strengths and limitations. In this episode our hosts speak to the researchers Paul Röttger and Bertie Vidgen to discuss how they are attempting to tackle online hate speech, in particular through their work on HateCheck - a suite of tests for hate speech detection models.