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Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says AI should moderate social media
(www.businessinsider.com)
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I think I am for this use of AI. Specifically for image moderation, not really community moderation. Yes, it would be subject to whatever bias they want, but they already moderate with a bias.
If they could create this technology, situations like the linked article could be avoided: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/22/business/facebook-content-moderators-kenya-ptsd-intl/index.html
Edit: To be clear, not to replace existing reddit mods, but to be a supplemental tool.
I agree. AI could be good for first line of defense specifically for sorting our traumatizing gore and the like.
For normal moderation I think it’s only useful in the same way as spell check. Second set or eyes but human makes the final call.
Hotdog / Not Hotdog
But yeah, having a semantical image filter could do be a good first line, of course with human oversight.
And frankly, seeing the mod abuse that goes on in many communities, having AI moderators helping with text moderation would be nice too. At least they'd be more consistent.