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Censorship is already unethical. One would have establish a need for censorship first. Can a book be written, that causes people to become a danger and thus nee
by scantis 4y ago
Censorship is already unethical. One would have establish a need for censorship first. Can a book be written, that causes people to become a danger and thus needs to be forbidden?
Is it even possible that a text on a computer screen can cause harm to someone?
I'm not aware of this and any argument for censorship is usually quite a long stretch of hypertheticals.
For violating TOS people should know what rule they have violated. For example doxing, spamming or just being insufferably rude. Punishment without explanation or reason is obviously unethical.
I think shadow banning people and then actively keeping them in loop can hardly argued to be ethical. Shadow banning itself is barely ethical.
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- croo 4y agoAnd if the ai would communicate with these toxic shadowbanned people in such a way they become aware of their rudeness or mistakes on the forum? If AI creates a feedback loop then it's all right?
- scantis 4y agoInteresting thought. I think this falls in line with explaining mistakes to people and is quickly off topic to op. If AI could help people to bring their point or grievance across in a clear manner, this would be the opposite of a shadow ban. This can be done transparent, in Form of a suggestion. E.g to write penis as p.e.n.i.s. to make clear that proton enhanced neutron induction spectroscopy is abbreviated here, might be helpful to some. AI can create a feedback loop ethically, if it makes itself know as an AI or automated system or Eliza 2.0. The user can choose to just opt out or mash on his keyboard as he pleases, as we do since 1964. That is all ethical, but deceiving users and trapping them definitely isn't.