Facebook says its AI failed to catch the New Zealand shooter video. The shooter livestreamed 17 minutes of the horrific attack -- which left 50 people dead -- on the site.
In a blog post late Wednesday evening the social media company's vice president of integrity, Guy Rosen, wrote that the shooter's video did not trigger Facebook's automatic detection systems because its artificial intelligence did not have enough training to recognize that type of video. The shooter livestreamed 17 minutes of the horrific attack -- which left 50 people dead -- on Facebook.Facebook said when the video was live, fewer than 200 people watched it.
"What challenged our approach was the proliferation of many different variants of the video, driven by the broad and diverse ways in which people shared it."Rosen also revealed that the way users flagged the video led to a delay in Facebook's reaction. The social network has in the past focused on reacting immediately to videos that show suicide.
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