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HateMM: A Multi-Modal Dataset for Hate Video Classification

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Hate speech has become one of the most significant issues in modern society, having implications in both the online and the offline world. Due to this, hate speech research has recently gained a lot of traction. However, most of the work has primarily focused on text media with relatively little work on images and even lesser on videos. Thus, early stage automated video moderation techniques are needed to handle the videos that are being uploaded to keep the platform safe and healthy. With a view to detect and remove hateful content from the video sharing platforms, our work focuses on hate video detection using multi-modalities. To this end, we curate ~43 hours of videos from BitChute and manually annotate them as hate or non-hate, along with the frame spans which could explain the labelling decision. To collect the relevant videos we harnessed search keywords from hate lexicons. We observe various cues in images and audio of hateful videos. Further, we build deep learning multi-modal models to classify the hate videos and observe that using all the modalities of the videos improves the overall hate speech detection performance (accuracy=0.798, macro F1-score=0.790) by ~5.7% compared to the best uni-modal model in terms of macro F1 score. In summary, our work takes the first step toward understanding and modeling hateful videos on video hosting platforms such as BitChute.


Why teaching robots to blink is hard but important

BBC News

Mr Kennedy says that the research remains more experimental, and isn't yet being applied in Disney's theme parks. "The goal here was to really select a single social cue that we were interested in and push it as far as we could in making lifelike believable motion and behaviour that we felt would provide a platform for engagement with people."


Bing Is a Trap

The Atlantic - Technology

A Microsoft spokesperson is typing something into a search engine, and it isn't quite working. I'm watching this unfold at a Microsoft press event in Manhattan that's meant to show off new features on Bing, the company's Google rival. In this demonstration, a chatbot is supposed to respond to a user's query with an embedded video. Typing on a large computer monitor in full view of several journalists, the staffer asks the program for instructions to tie a tie. But instead of a video, Bing generates an absurd heap of text--so many words about looping and knotting fabric set against a sterile white speech bubble.


The Writers Strike Is Taking a Stand on AI

TIME - Tech

The last time the Writers Guild of America went on strike, in 2007, workers pushed back against the nascent streaming industry, advocating for higher residual payments for content released over streaming. Now a new technology, artificial intelligence, stands to drastically change Hollywood again as Guild strikers return to the picket line. Streaming giants like Hulu, Netflix, and Disney have come to dominate the industry, changing the models by which content is produced and distributed and making it increasingly difficult for writers to earn a sustainable income. And as artificial intelligence technology rapidly improves, the WGA aims to place limits on the use of AI in movies and TV scripts. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) --which is negotiating the contract on behalf of Hollywood studios, streamers, and production companies--say their priority is "the long-term health and stability of the industry" and they are dedicated to reaching "a fair and reasonable agreement" according to the Associated Press.


Why I Decided to Let My Students Turn in Essays Written by a Machine

Slate

The writing sounded like the typical 3 a.m. It was the sort of paper that usually makes me wonder: Did this student even come to class? Did I communicate anything of any value to them at all? Except there were no obvious tells that this was the product of an all-nighter: no grammar errors, misspellings, or departures into the extraneous examples that seem profound to students late at night but definitely sound like the product of a bong hit in the light of day. Perhaps, just before the end of the semester, I was seeing my very first student essay written by ChatGPT?


AI could be 'nail in the coffin' for the internet, warns Neil DeGrasse Tyson

FOX News

The'Fox & Friends' co-hosts discussed concerns surrounding artificial intelligence and how it will impact the internet moving forward. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson issued a stark warning on the rise of artificial intelligence, noting that the development of fake videos and other media could be the final "nail in the coffin" for the internet. The renowned astrophysicist and author discussed his thoughts surrounding the future of the global computer network during Thursday's episode of "The Fox News Rundown" podcast. "Part of me wonders, maybe AI will create such good fakes that no one will trust the Internet anymore for anything, and we just have to simply shut it down," deGrasse Tyson said. "Thirty years, it was a good run from the early nineties to the early twenties and 2020s, now it's time for the next thing," he continued.


Newspaper uses video game to smuggle Ukraine War truths to Russian citizens

FOX News

Fox News correspondent Alex Hogan has more on Ukraine prepping for a new offensive against Vladimir Putin's forces on'The Story with Martha MacCallum.' A Finish newspaper is using a video game map to smuggle information about the war in Ukraine to Russian citizens, bypassing Moscow's propaganda and censorship. "As we have been widely concerned about the press freedom situation and freedom of speech in Russia, we decided that maybe it's possible to find some new channels to provide Russian audience with some reliable, independent journalism for example about the situations in Ukraine," Antero Mukka, editor-in-chief of Helsingin Sanomat, told Retuers. Helsingin Sanomat, the country's largest newspaper, has struggled to bypass Russian media restrictions and decided to get creative as it looked to also mark World Press Freedom Day, which fell on May 3. "As the Russian government has de facto suppressed its national press and blocked access to foreign media," said Mukka, "Counter-Strike has remained as one of the rare channels that allows us to communicate independent information to Russians about real events from the war." The paper built a map for the first-person shooter multiplayer game Counter-Strike, which is incredibly popular in Russia.


Jonah Peretti Has Regrets About BuzzFeed News

The New Yorker

On the day that Jonah Peretti, the C.E.O. of BuzzFeed, announced that he was closing BuzzFeed News, he held a video all-hands meeting with the site's staff. "People always yell at Jonah in meetings," Katie Notopoulos, a tech reporter, said, "but I've seen worse." Peretti had already sent the attendees a memo acknowledging the bad moves that had led up to this moment. "I made the decision to overinvest in BuzzFeed News because I love their work and mission so much," he had written. "This made me slow to accept that the big platforms wouldn't provide the distribution or financial support required to support premium, free journalism purpose-built for social media."


Russian drone attack in Ukraine after oil refinery targeted

Al Jazeera

Russia has blamed Ukraine for setting ablaze one of its oil refineries, while Kyiv has accused Moscow of launching dozens of overnight strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles for the second day running. The targeting of the fuel facility on Thursday occurred at the Ilsky refinery near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk in the Krasnodar region, Russia's TASS news agency reported citing local emergency services. A fuel reservoir was on fire, it said, but gave no further details. A day earlier, a fuel depot further to the west caught fire near a bridge linking Russia's mainland with the occupied Crimean Peninsula. "A second turbulent night for our emergency services," Krasnodar Governor Veniamin Kondratyev wrote on Telegram, confirming tanks with oil products were set ablaze.


Americans split on keeping government's hands off AI: 'Look what happened with social media'

FOX News

People in Los Angeles and Austin told Fox News whether they think it's important for the government to regulate artificial intelligence technology. Americans in California and Texas revealed whether they think it's important for the government to regulate artificial intelligence. "Definitely," Carlos, a Houston resident, told Fox News. "It should be regulated to the fullest extent as drugs or anything else should be." But Joe, of San Antonio, disagreed.