Thread by @sparklingruby

AI: Censorship’s Final Frontier?

🆕 CensorTrack with @PaitenIselin
@theMRC @FreeSpeechAmer

#RubyFiles #AI

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Ruby’s investigative work, dubbed the Ruby Files, exposed how platforms like Twitter use Natural Language Processing (NLP) to “moderate or perhaps possibly censor speech.”

Ruby urged for more transparency as Big Tech continues to implement AI online.

“We need clear disclosures” for people who are working in Big Tech while simultaneously receiving funding from federal agencies.

“The point is it’s a conflict of interest,” she said.

“What they’re really doing is creating Machine Learning that’s seeded with their own political bias, but no one knows enough, or is putting enough resources in, to check that.”

Criticizing Congress’s narrow focus on manual content moderation during The Twitter Files hearing, she… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…