Researchers develop AI that can put an end to online hate speech

Researchers from McGill University, Montreal, have developed an artificial intelligence program (AI) that they believe is one way to put an end to online hate speech. Haji Mohammad Saleem and his team have developed a system that learns hate speech from a data dump that they collected from Reddit between 2006 and 2016, that is 10 years of hate speech from support and abuse groups on the platform, reports Futurism. They were also able to use such data dumps from other sites. Their focus was three major groups who tend to receive a lot of hate – women, African Americans and overweight people. "We then propose an approach to detecting hateful speech that uses content produced by self-identifying hateful communities as training data," wrote the researchers in a release.