Reddit will now use an AI model to fight harassment (www.androidauthority.com)
from ardi60@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.ml on 07 Mar 2024 13:38
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GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 07 Mar 2024 13:42 next collapse

There were such attempts in the past… The false positive rates were around 30-80%…

Matomo@lemmy.ml on 07 Mar 2024 13:58 collapse

To be fair towards Reddit here, AI now is vastly different and more capable for this kind of stuff than it was years ago.

queermunist@lemmy.ml on 07 Mar 2024 14:07 next collapse

It’s also less capable than human moderators so…

Matomo@lemmy.ml on 07 Mar 2024 18:00 collapse

I agree. What’s your point? I’m not defending the choice to use AI for that purpose. I’m saying AI from years ago can’t be compared to the current AI

queermunist@lemmy.ml on 07 Mar 2024 18:41 collapse

That this isn’t going to work and will probably make things worse.

slacktoid@lemmy.ml on 08 Mar 2024 00:28 collapse

Thats capitalism and reddit.

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 07 Mar 2024 15:15 next collapse

When it comes to moderation, I don’t really think so tbh. And it’s unfair to use it anyways so it doesn’t matter

Matomo@lemmy.ml on 07 Mar 2024 18:03 next collapse

I agree it’s not fair, unless there’s some human element to it that checks and corrects the AI’s choices.

That said, modern AI is pretty capable of recognising something like harassment, I’d say.

Just to be clear, I’m not defending Reddit for choosing AI over human moderation

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 07 Mar 2024 18:31 collapse

Afaik AI algorithms are already widely used to find and flag violations but human element is still needed in order to make a decision. Fully automated systems should never be there in my opinion

Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works on 08 Mar 2024 04:06 collapse

Why’s it unfair? They were never going to pay people anyways.

I agree its the wrong decision but unfair is an interesting word to me.

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 08 Mar 2024 05:44 collapse

I meant that it’s unfair to Reddit users because they can get banned for no reason. But I guess there’s a better word for it. My vocabulary is at like 2nd grade level lol

Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works on 08 Mar 2024 06:14 collapse

Oh gotcha. That makes sense, I thought you were talking about the mods

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 08 Mar 2024 06:16 collapse

No I was talking about the AI banning people automatically

survivalmachine@beehaw.org on 07 Mar 2024 18:47 collapse

Also to be fair to this idea, the quality of human moderators on Reddit is drastically worse than it was several years ago.

shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee on 07 Mar 2024 15:25 next collapse

Dang I wish we had movies that thoroughly explored possible devastating outcomes of having artificial intelligence make executive decisions for real people

Orbituary@lemmy.world on 07 Mar 2024 16:00 next collapse

“Reddit using inferior AI to avoid paying moderators”

Fixed the headline.

kandoh@reddthat.com on 07 Mar 2024 18:15 next collapse

So much innocent comments will get flag that people won’t want to bother with posting

Asudox@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 2024 06:04 collapse

And hopefully switch to lemmy.

REdOG@lemmy.world on 07 Mar 2024 18:37 collapse

Seems like AI is going to make it so that vulgarity and naughtiness are the only human generated things left.

Pokes human with slick: “now fight”