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AI-Assisted Tweet Categorization for Public Display

Accountable

National Film Board (NFB)

Functional Modes

Deciding (Analytical AI)

Human executes

Purpose

Inform

Input Dataset

About behaviour Identifiable data

Algorithm or Model

Affect & Emotion Analysis

Output Dataset

A recommendation or prediction Anonymized data

Details

This system uses IBM Watson Tone Analyzer to automatically categorize tweets for display on the National Film Board of Canada's live website. It analyzes the emotional tone of social media posts to determine which content is shown to website visitors. The system is operated by National Film Board staff and affects members of the public who post on social media and whose content may be surfaced or filtered by the algorithm.