Machine Learning Model Detecting Deceptive Content via Facial Recognition

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current online systems face challenges in efficiently identifying and preventing the distribution of deceptive content, as conventional techniques struggle to detect complex policy violations, relying on slow and error-prone human review or failing to recognize deceptive content effectively.

Innovation Solution

An online system employs a machine-learning based model that extracts facial features from content items, matches them against a database of celebrity images, generates a deceptive score, and adjusts distribution rates based on policy compliance, using a feature extractor and image database to automate the detection and verification of deceptive content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If human reviewers are used to identify deceptive content, then detection accuracy improves, but review speed decreases and costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection accuracyVSAvoidreview speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical human review process with an automated machine learning system that uses image recognition algorithms to detect celebrity faces in content. This substitution maintains detection accuracy while dramatically improving review speed and reducing costs, directly resolving the contradiction between precision and productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service detection by automatically analyzing content without requiring human reviewer intervention. The machine learning model independently identifies deceptive content by recognizing celebrity images and evaluating contextual relevance, making the detection process autonomous and scalable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of manufacture

If simple keyword-based detection is used, then implementation ease improves, but detection capability for complex policies deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimplementation easeVSAvoiddetection capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary machine learning system that bridges the gap between simple keyword detection and complex policy enforcement. The system uses image recognition as an intermediate step to identify celebrity faces, then applies rule-based logic to evaluate whether the content contextually matches the identified celebrities, thereby enhancing detection capability while maintaining implementation feasibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Productivity

If automated detection techniques are used, then processing speed improves, but ability to identify complex policy violations deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocessing speedVSAvoidpolicy violation identification
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the detection process into distinct modular components: image extraction, face recognition, celebrity identification, and contextual analysis. Each module handles a specific aspect of the detection task, allowing the system to process content quickly while maintaining accurate identification of complex policy violations through coordinated operation of specialized sub-systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10643112B1Detecting content items violating policies of an online system using machine learning based model
Publication Date: 2020.05.05 META PLATFORMS INC
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AI summary

An online system distributes content items provided by content providers. The online system determines a likelihood of a content item having deceptive information. The online system stores images showing faces of people in an image database. The online system extracts features from the content item, and provides the extracted features to a machine learning based model configured to generate score indicating whether a content item comprises deceptive information. The machine learning based model uses at least a feature based on matching of faces of users shown in the content item with faces of users shown in the images of the image database. If the online system determines that a content item is deceptive, the online system adds images comprising faces extracted from the content item to the image database to grow the image database.