Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 April 2024

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Protection of Children in the Use of Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed)

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I am sorry for interrupting Ms Dilé but how can she argue that when in November 2022, prior to Elon Musk taking over X, Twitter as it was then employed 5,500 human content moderators? Today it employs 2,500. That to me is not a sign of a commitment to human content moderation.

I agree that technology can do a lot of good stuff, but it will not capture nuance and everything else. Does Ms Dilé not accept that more than halving the number of human content moderators shows that X is not committed to this and that it could become over-reliant on AI?