The dark side of memes

Talk presented by Muzhaffar Hazman on TEDxGalway

While seemingly just funny pictures, memes are a significant indicator of the transformational change that has occurred in the way we communicate as humans. Equally symbols of culture but also vehicles for hate. Muz believes AI is the solution. By incorporating user perspectives and sociolinguistics, AI can be better developed to filter harmful memes. Muz is an AI and Social Media researcher from the University of Galway and the Science Foundation of Ireland's research centre for Digitally Enhanced Reality (d-real.ie). They spend an inordinate amount of time on Twitter, Reddit and YouTube in pursuit of their PhD on Internet Memes (or so they claim). Their work focusses on incorporating user perspectives and sociolinguistics into how AI interprets multimodal memes.

Muz has had a longstanding fascination with the novel ideas -- from running a matchmaking service for religious conservatives to being an ergonomics engineer at a particle accelerator laboratory and using credit data as teaching tools for financial literacy.

See the full talk: The dark side of memes | Muzhaffar Hazman | TEDxGalway - YouTube