Below are posts associated with the “content moderation” tag.
🔗 linkblog: Even The Most Well-Meaning Internet Regulations Can Cause Real Harm'
I’ve only skimmed this so far, but while I firmly believe that the fetishizing of freedom of expression is causing real issues in our world, I appreciate Masnick’s critique. I expect I’ll always be more keen on regulation than he is, but that doesn’t make him wrong in the points he’s making here.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Discovers When Content Moderation Makes Sense: When He Can Use It To Protect Racist Bigots From Being Called Out'
“Mentioning names both is and isn’t allowed. It’s a quantum superposition of content moderation that only collapses when observed by Musk himself.” 😂😂😂
🔗 linkblog: Call for Submissions: The Deleted Comments Department - Exponent II'
Bookmarking for future research. What a fascinating (if frustrating) interplay of social media platforms and religious authority.
🔗 linkblog: X is being flooded with graphic Taylor Swift AI images - The Verge'
I don’t get what’s missing from a world without generative AI—and examples like this don’t make me any more convinced.
🔗 linkblog: Haine en ligne : Elon Musk promet de payer les recours en justice contre la future loi irlandaise'
Musk ne s’intéresse à la liberté d’expression que quand il peut en profiter.
🔗 linkblog: Substack Realizes Maybe It Doesn’t Want To Help Literal Nazis Make Money After All (But Only Literal Nazis) | Techdirt'
As usual, I find Masnick’s recap of this recent nonsense helpful in terms of summary and interpretation.
🔗 linkblog: TikTok Quietly Curtails Data Tool Used by Critics - The New York Times'
Don’t love it when platforms shut down tools because they don’t like outside research.
🔗 linkblog: Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content - The Verge'
There are legitimately difficult content moderation decisions, but this is not one of them. Shame on Substack for this approach.
🔗 linkblog: Community Notes Is Great Until It Challenges Elon, And Then It’s Being ‘Manipulated’ By State Actors | Techdirt'
Is this the same feature Elon says will be sufficient for keeping Alex Jones in check?
🔗 linkblog: The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation | WIRED'
How a platform is managed has real consequences.
🔗 linkblog: 4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images | Ars Technica'
Content moderation is a good thing.
🔗 linkblog: Opinion | I Was Attacked by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. I Believe It Was a Strategy To Change What You See Online. - The New York Times'
Roth’s perspective is valuable here. Scary stuff.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk, Once Again, Tries To Throttle Links To Sites He Dislikes | Techdirt'
I’ve instinctively never liked t.co links, and this demonstrates what the problem with them are.
🔗 linkblog: OpenAI wants GPT-4 to solve the content moderation dilemma - The Verge'
Look, if an automated process could save human moderators from the awful work they have to do, I’d be all for it. I’m unconvinced that GPT-4 could do it, though.
🔗 linkblog: AI hysteria is a distraction: algorithms already sow disinformation in Africa | Odanga Madung | The Guardian'
So many important points in this piece.
🔗 linkblog: Cleaning Up ChatGPT’s Language Takes Heavy Toll on Human Workers - WSJ'
Everyone excited about generative AI needs to account for this kind of thing. We don’t pay enough attention to digital labor and the dehumanizing aspects of content moderation.
🔗 linkblog: A Leaked Memo Shows TikTok Knows It Has a Labor Problem | WIRED'
I think this is a much bigger deal than any purported security risk.
🔗 linkblog: ChatGPT users drop for the first time as people turn to uncensored chatbots | Ars Technica'
I get that it’s straightforward language that everyone will get, but I think “uncensored” is the wrong word here. Content moderation is not (necessarily) censorship, and content moderation is good and helpful for tools like generative AI.
🔗 linkblog: Internal Twitter Video Reveals Twitter Bent Over Backwards To Protect Trump And Pro-Trump Insurrectionists | Techdirt'
Helpful summary by Masnick; bookmarking for later.
🔗 linkblog: Inside 4chan’s Top-Secret Moderation Machine | WIRED'
A good glimpse at content moderation, and why it’s important to do it correctly.
🔗 linkblog: Moderator Mayhem: A Mobile Game To See How Well YOU Can Handle Content Moderation | Techdirt'
This is a neat game that shows how difficult content moderation is. Excited to have my content management students play it in the Fall.
🔗 linkblog: Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fake streams | Ars Technica'
Content moderation is hard, and it’s especially hard at scale. Because AI makes doing things at scale easier, it necessarily makes content moderation harder.
🔗 linkblog: Twitter Suspends Reporter For Reporting On Twitter Hack, Using Same Policy Old Twitter Used To Block NY Post Hunter Biden Story | Techdirt'
I’m tired of reading Twitter news, but I’m professionally obligated to do so, no matter how dumb it gets.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk Is Reportedly Building 'Based AI' Because ChatGPT Is Too Woke'
This is dumb and worrying. The CEO of Gab has been promising to develop “based AI,” but he’s a bit player. Musk has the resources and influence to make this a bigger problem.