King’s College London
King’s Lecturer in Computer Science, Dr Helen Yannakoudakis, was part of a team that enjoyed success in Facebook AI’s ‘Hateful Memes Challenge’ competition.
The ‘Hateful Memes Challenge’ competition set by Facebook AI, Getty Images and DrivenData addressed the difficulty of using AI to decide if a meme is offensive. AI can identify ‘hateful’ text or ‘hateful’ images, but this becomes more complex when images and text that might be inoffensive on their own are combined to make a meme.
More than 3,000 people from 150 countries took part in the competition. Teams were presented with a unique dataset of over 10,000 memes, and set with the goal of developing multimodal machine learning models to automatically identify hateful content.