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Home Secretary calls upon tech companies to pre-emptively block users

She wants "terrorist propaganda" to be detected before upload.

GCHQ clearly slipped up in their briefing of the technologically handicapped Amber Rudd. Must've told her about machine learning and hashes, and now she believes Minority Report is only a few years away.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/10/amber_rudd_ai_minority_report/
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Original post by AngeryPenguin
She wants "terrorist propaganda" to be detected before upload.

GCHQ clearly slipped up in their briefing of the technologically handicapped Amber Rudd.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/10/amber_rudd_ai_minority_report/


Either she is refusing to listen to the Civil Service when she is given advice, or they are also technologically illiterate themselves...
With current AI this'd be absolutely ****ed, you'd get stuff taken down just for saying the word Allah.

She's rather overly excited.
Original post by Retired_Messiah
With current AI this'd be absolutely ****ed, you'd get stuff taken down just for saying the word Allah.

She's rather overly excited.


She probably wants people to be taken down for just saying the world Allah.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/03/amber-rudd-viewers-of-online-terrorist-material-face-15-years-in-jail
Original post by AngeryPenguin


Oh yeah I forgot she'd said that as well. Hecc
We’re really not at the point yet where this is possible to do reliably.
Original post by shadowdweller
We’re really not at the point yet where this is possible to do reliably.


No ****

But I'm worried about a) the fact that the Home Secretary thinks that it is, and b) the fact that the Home Secretary thinks it is a great idea

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