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Cinder
@Triquetrea
"Twitter is shit at ML and doesn't want to pay human mods," seems like a compelling alternative. But yeah, it's not exactly looking great.
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Guinevieve 🪲
@Bug_Grrrl
Does anyone have an explanation for this that isn't twitter explicitly silencing people who stand against concentration camps? Because it sure looks like twitter is explicitly silencing people who stand against concentration camps.
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Kenneth Folk
@KennethFolk
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@Triquetrea
I don't know what "ML" is. I'd be surprised if anyone else does. Please don't use abbreviations when you don't have to. I just want to divine the essential meaning of your tweets without jumping through hoops.
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
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@KennethFolk
Fair enough. Machine learning. A lot of content moderation is programmatic, looking for e.g. keywords. This software is notoriously error prone (I've worked on some of it, albeit not in a censorship context) and e.g. will target activist orgs when they directly quote racists.
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
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@Triquetrea
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@KennethFolk
If you look at openly racist alt right accounts, they know to write stuff like "riitards" or whatever to exploit off-by-one errors. Can't code for this without censoring half the site in the process, plus it's computationally just not doable. Activists don't tend to know this.
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