Claudia von Vacano on AI that Recognizes Hate Speech
We're so incredibly proud of the work executive committee member Claudia von Vacano does with Digital Humanities at Berkeley and the D-Lab, and she's receiving some well-deserved publicity from Cronkite News, a division of Arizona PBS. Their article "Can artificial intelligence recognize hate speech? Cal-Berkeley researchers think so" details the work that Claudia and the D-Lab team have done in partnership with the Anti-Defamation League in developing an Online Hate Index.
From the article:
“Going into the project,” Von Vacano said, “we kind of naïvely thought that we could ingest large amounts of text and, at the other end, say on a binary level ‘This is hate … this is not hate.’
“At this point, we have a much more sophisticated understanding of hate speech as a linguistic phenomenon, and we are really dissecting hate speech as a construct with multiple components.”
Read the full article here.