New York Times is using Google’s AI to expand online comments

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Google is helping the New York Times expand its online article comments with an advanced tool designed to fight internet trolls. 

Using Google's Perspective — an API created by Jigsaw (a subsidiary of Alphabet) — the Times lets readers post comments on all top stories and opinion pieces during business hours.

Previously, readers were limited to commenting on about 10 percent of articles due to a having just 14 human moderators to review the online publication's nearly 12,000 daily comments, Recode reported.

But now, the moderators are getting some much-needed assistance from a machine-learning algorithm that Google first first released back in February. Read more...

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