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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Only if the also take the full legal responsibility for the AIs actions.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

The business model IS dodging any kind of responsibility so... yeah, I think they'll pass.

[–] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago

They don’t even take responsibility for things now.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think AI is positioned to make better decisions than execs. The money saved would be huge!

[–] mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The money saved goes where?

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It goes to pay off the debt of all of the nations in the world and will then usher in a new age of peace, obviously.

[–] mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

Haha. That says it all.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 79 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Honestly, I've always thought the best use case for AI is moderating NSFL content online. No one should have to see that horrific shit.

[–] brorodeo@lemmy.ca 3 points 22 hours ago

Bsky already does that.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 21 hours ago

Yup.
It's a traumatic job/task that gets farmed to the cheapest supplier which is extremely unlikely to have suitable safe guards and care for their employees.

If I were implementing this, I would use a safer/stricter model with a human backed appeal system.
I would then use some metrics to generate an account reputation (verified ID, interaction with friends network, previous posts/moderation/appeals), and use that to either: auto-approve AI actions with no appeals (low rep); auto-approve AI actions with human appeal (moderate rep); AI actions must be approved by humans (high rep).

This way, high reputation accounts can still discuss & raise awareness of potentially moderatable topics as quickly as they happen (think breaking news kinda thing). Moderate reputation accounts can argue their case (in case of false positives). Low reputation accounts don't traumatize the moderators.

[–] ouch@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What about false positives? Or a process to challenge them?

But yes, I agree with the general idea.

[–] tarknassus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

They will probably use the YouTube model - “you’re wrong and that’s it”.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 days ago

Or a process to challenge them?

😂😂😂😔

[–] HowAbt2day 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] blargle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

Not sufficiently fascist leaning. It's coming, Palantir's just waiting for the go-ahead...

[–] head_socj@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago

Agreed. These jobs are overwhelmingly concentratedin developing nations and pay pathetic wages, too.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago

In the other news: Meta pays another 3 billion Euro due to not following the DSA and getting banned in Europe.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 20 points 2 days ago

Well hey that actually sounds like a job AI could be good at. Just give it a prompt like "tell me there are no privacy issues because we don't care" and it'll do just that!

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Meta:

Here, AI. Watch all the horrible things humans are capable of and more for us. Make sure nothing gets through.

AI:

becomes SKYNET

Ouija boards made of databases don't really think

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Great move for Facebook. It'll let them claim they're doing something to curb horrid content on the platform without actually doing anything.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago

The marketing behind AI must feel like a runners high. “Something has AI”

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

dont forget censoring their critics under the guise of "violence"

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 23 points 2 days ago

moderation on facebook? i'm sure it can be found right next to bigfoot

(other than automated immediate nipple removal)

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

That's gonna end well😉

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

This might be the one time I'm okay with this. It's too hard on the humans that did this. I hope the AI won't "learn" to be cruel from this though, and I don't trust Meta to handle this gracefully.

[–] chrash0@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

pretty common misconception about how “AI” works. models aren’t constantly learning. their weights are frozen before deployment. they can infer from context quite a bit, but they won’t meaningfully change without human intervention (for now)

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, you could hire people who would otherwise enjoy the things they moderate. Keep em from doing shit themselves.

But, if all the sadists, psychos, and pedos were moderating, it would be reddit, I guess.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My guess is you dont know how bad it is. These people at Meta has real PTSD, and it would absolutly benefit everyone, if this in any way could be automatic with AI.

Next question is though, do you trust Meta to moderate? Nah, should be an independent AI, they couldnt tinker with.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

A bold strategy, Cotton

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh man, I may have to stop using this fascist sewer hose.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Following Tumblr's lead, I see...

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Would be a shame if people had so sift through AI generated gore before the bots like and comment it. But seriously, good on them.

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

I've never had a horse in this race, and I never will - but I'm sure this will work out well for those who do. /s

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

great idea..!