Hive is an American
artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...
company offering
machine learning
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models via
API
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s to enterprise customers.
Hive uses around 700,000
gig worker
Gig workers are independent contractors, online platform workers, contract firm workers, on-demand workers, and temporary workers. Gig workers enter into formal agreements with on-demand companies to provide services to the company's clients.
...
s to
train data for its models through its Hive Work app. One of Hive's major offerings is to provide automated
content moderation
On websites that allow users to create content, content moderation is the process of detecting contributions that are irrelevant, obscene, illegal, harmful, or insulting. The purpose of content moderation is to remove or apply a warning label to ...
services.
Products
Hive is reported to have been engaged to provide content moderation services to social news aggregator
Reddit
Reddit ( ) is an American Proprietary software, proprietary social news news aggregator, aggregation and Internet forum, forum Social media, social media platform. Registered users (commonly referred to as "redditors") submit content to the ...
,
Giphy
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History
Beginnings and early history
Giphy was founded by Alex Chung and Jace Cooke in February 2013.Al ...
,
,
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served as the 45 ...
-affiliated social network
Truth Social
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, and on online chat website
Chatroulette
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.
Parler
Parler (pronounced "parlor") is an American alt-tech social networking service associated with conservatives. Launched in August 2018, Parler marketed itself as a free speech-focused and unbiased alternative to mainstream social networks s ...
, after its shutdown by content service providers in early 2021 due to a lack of content moderation, integrated with Hive and was allowed back in the
App Store
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. Hive's content moderation models have been leveraged widely in the
livestreaming
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industry, where the cost of human moderation is high.
Hive's models have also been used in events such as the
Super Bowl
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and
March Madness
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, and its contextual advertising models used by
NBC Universal
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and
Vevo
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.
Hive provides APIs to detect deepfakes and AI-generated artwork.
In early 2023, Hive released a free demo text
classifier intended to detect AI-generated text. Mark Hachman at ''
PC World
''PC World'' (stylized as PCWorld) is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG. Since 2013, it has been an online-only publication.
It offers advice on various aspects of PCs and related items, the Internet, and other personal tec ...
'' rated Hive's classifier favorably and found it more reliable than
OpenAI
OpenAI, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) organization founded in December 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It aims to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence (AGI), which it defines ...
's AI text classifier.
History
Hive was founded by
Kevin Guo and
Dmitriy Karpman, and in April 2021, announced $85M in new capital at a valuation of $2 billion.
References
Artificial intelligence laboratories
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