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Yes, tech companies do not get to hide behind “we can’t do it because with humans.” Apple spends a significant amount of resources on human evaluation, and Twit
by thrwn_frthr_awy 7y ago
Yes, tech companies do not get to hide behind “we can’t do it because with humans.” Apple spends a significant amount of resources on human evaluation, and Twitter should not be allowed to shrug its shoulders and say “we are trying, but detection is hard.”
It is not unreasonable to take the top 5k accounts/hash tags and manually evaluate the top replies and retweets. Human evaluation can be very streamlined with clean evaluation rules, and these human evaluations get fed back to machine learning models.
- big_chungus 7y agoApple charges one thousand dollars for a phone; twitter is free. Is it unreasonable to expect a lower quality of service? Twitter didn't make its first annual profit until last year, whereas Apple has staggering amounts of cash burning a hole in its pocket. And after all that, Apple's recent products have been somewhat lackluster. Catalina is currently a dumpster-fire; a friend installed it and had his machine just sit frozen for a while along with a huge number of other problems. Keyboard design, too. Doesn't sound to perfect to me.
- Nextgrid 7y agoHowever, Apple’s failures don’t affect anyone that hasn’t bought into the ecosystem. Twitter’s failures on the other hand affect everyone - misinformation spread through their platform can and does affect society at large regardless of whether you’re using Twitter yourself.
- thrwn_frthr_awy 7y agoIt sounds like Twitter needs to charge more. If we (society?) cannot support a free website enough for it to be viable, so be it.