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“Over the last few years, we’ve had to limit the number of stories open for comment at any given time. Yet, we still regularly see more than 300,000 comments posted to our sites in an average month. It’s clear our current manual/human approach to moderation is no longer sustainable….As it works, the algorithm will be learning continuously, meaning if the algorithm makes a decision that a human moderator later decides to reverse or change, the machine learns to act in line with the human’s decision.” —
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automation,
CBC,
comments,
machine learning
