Facebook Buys Giphy For $400 Million As Tech Giant Pledges To Banish All "Hateful Memes"

Adding an extra layer of irony, Facebook this week announced the launch of its "Hateful Memes Challenge" where researchers will compete for a cash prize to develop an AI that can "successfully detect" "hateful memes" (ie anything that anyone finds offensive, probably a much broader category than many realize).

In a blog post, the company admits that it continues to struggle to meet the left's unrealistically high standards for banishing "hate speech" - much of which consists of political speech that makes snowflake lefties uncomfortable. Now, Facebook is gaining control of the world's biggest repository of gifs and memes, giving it even more power to control and censor content on the Internet.

"In order for AI to become a more effective tool for detecting hate speech, it must be able to understand content the way people do: holistically,” writes Facebook. “When viewing a meme, for example, we don’t think about the words and photo independently of each other; we understand the combined meaning together. This is extremely challenging for machines, however, because it means they can’t just analyze the text and the image separately. They must combine these different modalities and understand how the meaning changes when they are presented together.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/facebook-buys-giphy-400-million-pledges-crack-down-hateful-memes