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Big Tech went from the shiny new thing, to the Mc Donalds of content. They serve crap in mass produced quantities because it sells. Remember that content mode
by intended 5y ago
Big Tech went from the shiny new thing, to the Mc Donalds of content.
They serve crap in mass produced quantities because it sells.
Remember that content moderation stops scaling after a point. No matter what good engineers think they will achieve in the Trust and Safety / Risk divisions.
Reading this article it seems pretty clear that training parameters weigh engagement at a rate that makes junk content a guarantee.
The troubling part is that this IS creating another educated/uneducated divide. The kind of conspiracy theories I see gaining traction around me differ entirely based on education (and therefore income).
And if you are reading this far - almost all the data needed to have a society level discussion is under an NDA.
It gets worse the moment you leave the English language. Want to find a sentiment Analyzer that works well on Code-Mixed subcontinental/Portuguese/Dominican hate speech? Good luck with that.
- cvwright 5y ago> No matter what good engineers think they will achieve in the Trust and Safety / Risk divisions. You can have all the "Trust and Safety" effort you want, but when the core architecture of the system is built to reward the craziest stuff, you're still going to get a ton of crazy. It's like building a paintball park inside a nuclear reactor, in the middle of a WW2 minefield. No matter how many "Safety" staff you have running around in orange vests and hard hats, people are still going to get hurt.