I’ve previously written about whether the law is useful at stopping spam and how AI fights cybercrime. This post discusses how each of these approaches is critical, and why the problem can only be solved when they are used together. Laws strictly defining a class of abuse will fail At present, cybercrime is running rampant, virtually unchecked by...
Cybercrime and abuse are massive problems on the Internet, and on social media in particular. While many of these problems are yet to be solved, we can learn from the example of the fight against spam, which is by far the most mature of these battles. Spam filtering was the first widespread success for artificial intelligence, and illustrates both...
