Paul Goble
Staunton, Sept. 4 – Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media is developing a system that will allow the Moscow authorities to censor new books by means of artificial intelligence (AI), Vladimir Grigoryev, who heads the ministry department for the publishing industry says.
He says that his department hopes to complete the development of this system later this fall so that publishers who have doubts about a book can use it before releasing it to the public (t.me/agentstvonews/11775 reposted at echofm.online/news/minczifry-gotovitsya-czenzurirovat-knigi-s-pomoshhyu-iskusstvennogo-intellekta).
Initially, Grigoyev says, the AI program his subordinates are working on will be directed at finding illegal references to drugs; but it is certainly likely to be expanded to other topics and beyond the publishing industry to the government as the Putin regime seeks to crack down on all subjects it doesn’t like.
If those things happen, the Russian government will be in a position to censor far more publications than it does now and at far less cost, yet another example of the way in which the Putin regime is using high technology to extend some of the oldest impulses of the Russian regime.
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