Home Office unveils tech to automatically spot and stop online ISIS videos
The British tech, powered by A.I. to stop sick propaganda before it goes on the web, was funded with £600k of your money and is to be unveiled by the Home Sec in Silicon Valley today
NEW technology that automatically detects ISIS propaganda online will be unveiled by Home Secretary Amber Rudd today.
The software, designed by the Home Office, detects 94 per cent of terror material.
Out of a million randomly selected videos only 50 needed a human to analyse them.
The tech will be shared with smaller firms who do not have the resources of web giants.
Ms Rudd will reveal it at a digital summit of tech leaders in Silicon Valley, California.
And she will lay bare Home Office analysis that found ISIS used more than 400 different online platforms to spread its ideology and recruit new jihadis last year.
She will also meet bosses from Facebook, Google and Twitter to intensify pressure on them to do more to foil terrorists on the web.
The British technology, jointly designed by ASI Data Science in London, can stop most material before it even goes online.
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It uses advanced machine learning to analyse the audio and visuals of a video to determine whether it could be IS propaganda. It was funded with £600,000 of taxpayers’ money.
Ms Rudd said last night: “We know that automatic technology like this can heavily disrupt the terrorists’ actions as well as prevent people from ever being exploited to these horrific images.
“This Government has been taking the lead worldwide in making sure that vile terrorist content is stamped out.”
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