According to the department, Oculus automatically detects “offences such as extremist themes, calls for illegal mass events, suicide, pro-drug content, LGBT propaganda”
Roskomnadzor launched an automatic search system for banned content “Oculus”. On this subject informed Interfax with reference to the Main Radio Frequency Center (FSUE GRCHTS) subordinate to Roskomnadzor.
The need to use an automated system in the department was explained by the increasing flow of banned content on the Internet, including those related to the war in Ukraine.
The organization’s press service told the agency that in December 2022 the system was tested, and in January integration with other Roskomnadzor monitoring tools began. Now Oculus is “fully fulfilling its tasks” – looking for violations of Russian law in images and videos.
According to the department, Oculus automatically detects “offences such as extremist themes, calls for illegal mass events, suicide, pro-drug content, LGBT propaganda.”
Previously, HRCC staff analyzed this content mostly manually, processing an average of 106 images and 101 videos per day. Oculus will analyze more than 200,000 images per day, at about three seconds per image.
Until 2025, the system should be improved. “The possibility of adding new classes and types of violations, as well as the function of determining ures of people and their actions” is envisaged.
From a recent Roskomnadzor leak, it has become known that the Oculus neural network is also trained to look for insults to Vladimir Putin.
Formerly Belarusian hacker group”cyber guerrillas “Hacked the internal network of the ILV Main Radio Frequency Center. Terabytes of information were downloaded from there – correspondence from departmental employees, reports, documentation and other data. According to published documents, Roskomnadzor’s activities go far beyond official duties. It turned out, for example, that the department secretly compiles a file on almost all known journalists and public figures who criticize the Russian authorities, as well as independent media. The files contain detailed biographical information and links to personal social media accounts.