Artificial intelligence in Wikimedia projects: Difference between revisions

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===Detox===

Detox was a project by Google, in collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation, to research methods that could be used to address users posting unkind comments in Wikimedia community discussions.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Research:Detox - Meta |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Detox |language=en}}</ref> Among other parts of the Detox project, the Wikimedia Foundation and [[Jigsaw (company)|Jigsaw]] collaborated to use artificial intelligence for basic research and to develop technical solutions{{examples needed|date=April 2023}} to address the problem. In October 2016 those organizations published "Ex Machina: Personal Attacks Seen at Scale" describing their findings.<ref>{{Cite book |pages=1391–1399 |doi=10.1145/3038912.3052591 |arxiv=1610.08914|year=2017 |last1=Wulczyn |first1=Ellery |last2=Thain |first2=Nithum |last3=Dixon |first3=Lucas |title=Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web |chapter=Ex Machina: Personal Attacks Seen at Scale |isbn=9781450349130 |s2cid=6060248 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Jigsaw |title=Algorithms And Insults: Scaling Up Our Understanding Of Harassment On Wikipedia |url=https://medium.com/jigsaw/algorithms-and-insults-scaling-up-our-understanding-of-harassment-on-wikipedia-6cc417b9f7ff |website=Medium |date=7 February 2017}}</ref> Various popular media outlets reported on the publication of this paper and described the social context of the research.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wakabayashi |first1=Daisuke |title=Google Cousin Develops Technology to Flag Toxic Online Comments |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/technology/google-jigsaw-monitor-toxic-online-comments.html |journal=The New York Times |language=en |date=23 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Smellie |first1=Sarah |title=Inside Wikipedia's Attempt to Use Artificial Intelligence to Combat Harassment |url=https://motherboardwww.vice.com/en_usen/article/aeyvxz/wikipedia-jigsaw-google-artificial-intelligence/ |website=Motherboard |publisher=[[Vice Media]] |language=en-us |date=17 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Gershgorn |first1=Dave |title=Alphabet's hate-fighting AI doesn't understand hate yet |url=https://qz.com/918640/alphabets-hate-fighting-ai-doesnt-understand-hate-yet/ |website=Quartz |date=27 February 2017}}</ref>

===Bias reduction===