Twitter keeps confusing rockets for intimate content because of the platform's reliance on machine learning tools, an ex-employee says

Jan 5 2023 by Business Insider

 
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk beside a Falcon 9 launch.

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An ex-Twitter worker told Quartz the firm keeps misidentifying photos of rockets as intimate media. They said relying more on machine learning tools and less on humans can lead to more errors. Twitter flagged rocket videos from some news accounts as "intimate" and suspended their accounts.

A former Twitter employee said Elon Musk's company keeps mistaking photos of rockets as intimate content because of the...

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