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Content creators are also self-censoring to avoid automatic moderation (YouTube demonetization and TikTok shadowbanning). Things like "sex" and "death" are euph

by JTbane 4y ago

Content creators are also self-censoring to avoid automatic moderation (YouTube demonetization and TikTok shadowbanning). Things like "sex" and "death" are euphemized or not said (see things like "unalive" instead of "dead", "heckmet" instead of "helmet".

rippercushions 4y ago
What's wrong with "helmet"?
- Mindwipe 4y ago
  It's a euphemism for penis.
- detaro 4y ago
  it has "hell" in it.
  - aluminum96 4y ago
    But it... does not. It only has one L.
    - detaro 4y ago
      the thing people try to avoid is crappy speech recognition software, with a dose of cargo-culting because of course the platforms don't tell people what exactly they don't like, so people try to find patterns in what gets demonetized.
- rglover 4y ago
  Best guess: the AI interprets it as "war," "penis" and "clitoris" and pushes it into a moderation/flag queue.