• dhork@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    We all knew they would use bots for moderation eventually, I didn’t think it would happen this quickly though.

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      8 months ago

      They’ve been relying on an absolute dumpster fire of an automated system for years now. It is regularly abused to harass people, even getting them banned site wide when they didn’t do anything while other people openly troll and harass with impunity.

      AI will not fix this and there’s a good chance it’ll even make it worse. What reddit needs to do is actually hire adequate staffing and put an effective system in place, but they will absolutely not do that because they don’t care about the users, they just want to try and make money no matter what.

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      8 months ago

      While I’m skeptical AI technology is ready for this, I actually think it’s one of the better changes they’ve proposed. A truly impartial AI moderator can enforce polite discourse instead of flamewars.

      Of course I don’t trust Reddit to do it right, but theoretically I dig it.

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        8 months ago

        A truly impartial AI moderator can enforce polite discourse instead of flamewars.

        They’re basing it on data mining existing flagged comments, though. So their dumb bot will be trained on the dumbest samples. And it may not be able to tell the difference between why someone would get banned from /r/politics vs. r/conservative vs. r/catsstandingup

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          It seems like it would be a trivially straightforward thing to add the sub’s rules and moderation policies to the bot’s context whenever it’s operating on something in a particular sub.

          Though it sounds like this initial implementation is aimed at enforcing site-wide rules, in which circumstance the AI shouldn’t care what subreddit you’re posting in.

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            8 months ago

            Knowing them, even if it only starts out enforcing site wide rules, I expect it to start banning random people and IPs for no discernable reason, followed by r€dd!t coming out and saying it’s a great success

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        8 months ago

        Yep. Conceptually, it actually sounds like an appropriate application of the technology, but I expect Reddit to faceplant on the actual implementation. I mean honestly, the only way they were able to make a mobile app that people enjoyed using is by basically outlawing 3rd party clients.