[Talk-GB] unwanted advertising in OSM in the UK

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 08.03.2018 10:44, Jez Nicholson wrote:
> Interesting. The skill is in how to spot the difference between a
> description and an over-the-top SEO description. I'd love to see someone
> train an AI on this.

Frankly, I'm finding there is way too much AI talk in OpenStreetMap
recently (looking at the conference submissions, everyone seems to be
eager to get rid of that pesky limiting factor "human" and quickly have
AI trace all the buildings in the world, what can go wrong...).

But of course you're right and spam detection is a classic area for
machine learning, Bayesian filters, and the like. Jason Remillard had
the same thought over on talk-us when I published a similar list (albeit
300 times longer because more SEO firms seem to be interested in
spamming in the US) there. He's since come up with a spam detector:

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2018-March/080330.html

Bye
Frederik

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