LeCun: AI progress enabled automated hate speech removal across hundreds of languages
Yann LeCun · Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · May 15, 2023 · at 51:26
Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, discusses how advances in AI improved multilingual automated content moderation.
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“And then what the progress of AI over the last few years basically allowed systems to be deployed to do things like taking, take down hate speech relatively reliably in hundreds of different languages, which was basically impossible to do before.”
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