
Don’t buy Zuckerberg’s line that AI will save Facebook
https://qz.com/1250605/dont-buy-zuckerbergs-line-that-ai-will-save-facebook/
As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced America’s top politicians this week, they struck again and again at the question of harmful, malicious, or misleading content on Facebook, and asked: Does Facebook have a plan?
Zuckerberg responded that one is in the works—the company was hiring 20,000 people around the world to moderate the content generated by more than 2 billion Facebook users. And long-term, that job would be handled by artificial intelligence at massive scale.