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There's an assumption if you use human raters, you won't have false negatives or positives, but even human beings disagree over how to categorize speech, what's
by cromwellian 7y ago
There's an assumption if you use human raters, you won't have false negatives or positives, but even human beings disagree over how to categorize speech, what's homophobic, what's legitimate sarcasm or irony, what is violent content.
In fact, on top of human raters exhibiting classification problems in the face of ambiguity, there is also the issue of bias. Radiolab on NPR had a great series on Facebook's human censors that shows it just opens up a different pandora's box.
There is no clear, non-messy way to do censorship that doesn't end up with a sizable number of people mad, and with some subset of people hit by accidental or deliberate false positives.
I'm afraid there's no easy answer and it will inherently be constant battle and fight between sides.
- Fnoord 7y agoThe extreme/disgusting outliers (about which we reasonably can agree on) can be caught by an computer. That way, human beings can assess the (arguably) many gray areas.
- ptah 7y agopossibly, they should have LGBTQ humans do the rating on what is homophobic etc
- prometheus76 7y agoNo bias at all. Should work out great.
- mieseratte 7y agoI know LGBTQ people who are free-speech absolutist and others who believe that anything that may offend or otherwise may be used negatively should be censored. I know LGB people who think that the TQ+ should be peeled off and needs to be its own thing. There is no uniformity among LGBTQ, the only commonality is the lack of being hetero.
- paulnechifor 7y agoSounds like a conflict of interest. If someone gets sued for rape, the jury doesn't get filled with rape victims.
- ptah 7y agomaybe the jury should have some rape victims to make it non-biased
- alwayseasy 7y agoIsn't this the whole business model of media organizations? Humans classifying, censoring information that is harmful based on the media's definition? Youtube has proven unable to manage their algorithmic censorship many times.