So why expose people to this when it should be possible with tech?
Could you code the difference between a loving touch & a sexual touch? Or why a disembowled corpse is news in one context, porn in another, & lunch in a 3rd? Or how one person screaming in terror is part of a willingly engaged upon prank-war, and another an assault? Playing with a dog and writhing and screaming in joy, versus being mauled by a dog and writhing and screaming in pain?
There are a
lot of filters, but not only does someone have to code the filters, but then everything they filter has to be verified.
The human element is just irreplaceable.
Neurology & Computer Sciences work really closely, because each is riffing off the other (we build better computers the better we understand the human brain, and the better computers we build, the more we understand the human brain)... But the ability to discriminate
intent? That isn't something computers have, yet. Nor is the ability to set queries. Computers can collate data given certain parameters, but someone actually has to set those parameters. And then once all the data has been assembled, a real person has to go through it.
As the article states,
“The public needs to understand that this work is not being done by a computer,” Wells said.
When Soto was “involuntarily transferred” to the unit in 2008, he had “God-like” status, which meant he could view any customer’s communications, the suit said. His job involved assisting law enforcement in breaking up “crime rings” and “violent groups” and required him to view “many thousands of photographs and videos” of violence and brutality.”
Blauert, who was hired as a full-time employee in 2012, was also required to “review thousands of images of child pornography, adult pornography and bestiality that graphically depicted the violence and depravity of the perpetrators.”
Real people are needed to do these jobs. That they were warned it's "dangerous work", isn't good enough. Oil Rigging is dangerous work. And if someone is hurt, then the company pays. PTSD is a known possibility from this kind of work. Being warned you may develop PTSD doesn't somehow absolve the company of its responsibilities.
