Facebook launches new system to spot 'offensive' memes and 'fake news'

Facebook made a huge announcement last week regarding a new system they are launching, called Rosetta. Rosetta is an extensive learning system that will scan images on the social platform to automatically identify "inappropriate or harmful content." Rosetta can process more than a billion images a day, Fox News reported. Facebook's Rosetta AI Detects Offensive Memes pic.twitter.com/GZfPwsrssw — PCMag (@PCMag) September 12, 2018 Currently, there are approximately 350 million photos being uploaded to Facebook each day. Facebook and Instagram have turned to artificial intelligence to help understand these images. The Facebook Al will do much more than identify offensive memes, however. It is also capable of detecting words that appear in images of storefronts, street signs or restaurant menus. "Understanding the text that appears on images is important for improving experiences, such as a more relevant photo search or the incorporation of text into screen readers...

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