Meta says automation wrongly took down No Kings and a Senate candidate’s page. It’s automating more anyway
Source: Fortune ·
Lula’s campaign, the No Kings coalition and a Florida Senate candidate ran into restrictions on Meta’s platforms this fall. Each time, Meta blamed errors in its systems.
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Meta has spent the last year handing more of its content moderation to artificial intelligence. In the last few weeks, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company has fended off election-interference accusations in Brazil and the U.S. It has largely blamed these errors on its automated systems. Those accusations have come from a sitting president, a national protest movement and a U.S. Senate candidate. Each landed as Meta, a Fortune 500 company that reported $201 billion in revenue last year, speeds up a shift from human reviewers to large language models. Meta announced in March that it would roll out more advanced AI content-enforcement systems. By June, large language models had replaced human reviewers for about half of review requests, with a goal of 90% or more automation for some violation categories by the end of 2026, according to the Financial Times. Meta told the paper its models make 13% fewer errors than human reviewers and catch 10% more violations; some employees have…
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