Meta will move away from human content moderators in favor of more AI

The company says humans will play a key role in important decisions. A little more than a year after ditching third-party fact checkers and rolling back much of its proactive content moderation, the company says it will further transform its approach by drastically reducing the number of human moderators in favor of AI-based systems. The company says the change will happen over the next few years, and will allow the company to catch more issues faster than its current approach. Meta didn't say how much of its contract workforce might be cut as it makes this transition. The company employs thousands of contractors around the world to review content flagged by its AI systems and user reports among other tasks.