{"id":12018,"date":"2021-03-15T08:34:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=12018"},"modified":"2021-03-15T08:34:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:34:46","slug":"he-got-facebook-hooked-on-ai-now-he-cant-fix-its-misinformation-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/he-got-facebook-hooked-on-ai-now-he-cant-fix-its-misinformation-addiction\/12018\/","title":{"rendered":"He Got Facebook Hooked on AI. Now He Can&#8217;t Fix Its Misinformation Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in MIT Technology Review, March 11, 2021. The company\u2019s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can&#8217;t fix the problem. Joaquin Qui\u00f1onero Candela, a director of AI at Facebook, was apologizing to his audience. It was March 23, 2018, just days after the revelation that Cambridge Analytica, a consultancy that worked on Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 presidential election campaign, had surreptitiously siphoned the personal data of tens of millions of Americans from their Facebook accounts in an attempt to influence how they voted. It was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/he-got-facebook-hooked-on-ai-now-he-cant-fix-its-misinformation-addiction\/12018\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in MIT Technology Review, March 11, 2021. The company\u2019s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can&#8217;t fix the problem. Joaquin Qui\u00f1onero Candela, a director of AI at Facebook, was apologizing to his audience. It was March 23, 2018, just days after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12019,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12018\/revisions\/12019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}