Russian authorities have launched Oculus to analyze images and videos for violations of the law, a response to the growing flow of banned materials on the internet.
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Russia this week launched Oculus, an automated system that scans Internet content for violations of the law. “The Oculus information system has already been implemented and is fully fulfilling its functions,” a representative of the Main Radio Frequency Center (GRFC) told the Russian newspaper Vedomosti on Monday, quoted by the state agency TASS.
The official said that Oculus “recognizes images and symbols, illegal actions, and analyzes text in photos and videos,” automatically detecting “extremist themes, calls for illegal mass events, suicide, pro-drug content and LGBT propaganda”.
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Before the development of Oculus, the analysis of photos and videos was done manually by the operators, who processed about 106 images and 101 videos a day, said the head of the GRFC. the new system now you can analyze “more than 200,000 images a day”spending about three seconds per image.
The Oculus system will continue to be improved and the goal is that, by 2025, it will be able to detect prohibited materials in complex written text and drawn content. “We are also working on the possibility of adding new types of violations, as well as the function of determining the position of people and their actions,” revealed the same source.
The system is already being integrated with other monitoring tools of Russia’s Federal Service for Communication, Information, Technology and Media Supervision (Roskomnadzor).
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According to GRFC, the need for an automated solution is due to the increasing flow of prohibited materials on the Internet, a problem that has become more visible with the appearance of prohibited content related to the “military operation” in Ukraine. “We are talking about an unprecedented volume and distribution of fake news, with the aim of replacing the real facts”indicated.
The same source noted that in 2022 more than 100,000 internet content was removed or blocked, including material containing false information about the course of Russian operations in Ukraine.
Source: Observadora