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But it could at least be self-consistent. Sometimes identical tweets by different users are given different verdicts. Twitter's offensiveness detection seems ab
by wizzwizz4 5y ago
But it could at least be self-consistent. Sometimes identical tweets by different users are given different verdicts. Twitter's offensiveness detection seems about as good as Google's search results.
I've just realised a potential reason for this: we're seeing a spam-detection algorithm several years down the line from when Twitter started. That's several years of cat-and-mouse, where the spammers have access to much higher quality data than Twitter does. If their algorithm was simple, predictable or accurate, the spammers could just work around it. It's plausible that Twitter has run the numbers and determined that this is the best they can do, at the moment.
- pmarreck 5y ago> But it could at least be self-consistent. Sometimes identical tweets by different users are given different verdicts. Anything deterministic could be defeated in short order. But yeah, I get that criticism. > Twitter's offensiveness detection seems about as good as Google's search results. My Google search results are excellent. But I also don't block them anywhere in any capacity; you could possibly argue that Google knows me better than any living person, and I am benefiting from that. lol.
- ziml77 5y agoI've seen non-offensive stuff marked as potentially offensive and assumed it was just that the account makes offensive posts often enough that the default assumption is that the tweets are offensive.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoLike this website? Perhaps.