Moscow. September 20th. INTERFAX.RU – Subordinate to Roskomnadzor, the Main Radio Frequency Center (GRCHTs) has announced a competition for 15 million rubles to develop the terms of reference for the Oculus system, which will search the Internet for illegal content in photos and videos on the basis of artificial intelligence, writes Kommersant.
The publication refers to the materials of the public procurement portal. It follows from them that the terms of reference should be prepared by December 17, and the system will be launched in 2022. Until now, images and videos have been manually searched for extremist content, pornography, drug propaganda and calls for riots and suicide. The launch of the system based on artificial intelligence will speed up the process, according to the tender documentation.
The HRChTs believe that photos and videos have a stronger effect on consciousness and are gradually replacing text content.
“According to TikTok, the number of monthly users of the service has grown by 800% since 2018, posts with images on Facebook attract users 2.3 times more often than messages without them, it is in such content that more and more information prohibited by the laws of the Russian Federation appears,” explained in the center.
The development of the Oculus system can cost from tens to hundreds of millions of rubles, its implementation will cost billions, and maintenance – tens of millions a year, according to the co-owner of Lanit-Terkom Vladimir Ufnarovsky. Pavel Adylin, the general director of Artezio (part of the Lanit group) told the publication that to launch such a system in Runet, it is necessary not only to create the system itself, but also to ensure that all Internet traffic passes through it, and if all visual content is pre-filtered, Internet access speed will slow down significantly.
Since 2019, the Oculus trademark has been assigned to Facebook, which is developing a virtual reality system under this brand, Kommersant recalled. In March 2021, Rospatent approved Facebook's application for the Oculus trademark in Cyrillic.
