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Doesn't seem like a very important issue. They simply said that moderators shouldn't take down posts or whatever ONLY because they're AI-generated. They can sti
by wilg 3y ago
Doesn't seem like a very important issue. They simply said that moderators shouldn't take down posts or whatever ONLY because they're AI-generated. They can still do so if they are incorrect, just like with a human poster.
- cubefox 3y agoIt's much easier to generate this content than to check whether it's correct. They are apparently worried it floods the system.
- wilg 3y agoBut they can't really do anything about people flooding the system, can they? Also, how do they even know it's AI generated?
- grugagag 3y agoNew accounts require some kind of turing tests. Old accounts could be banned if found out, so owners could be made aware of a policy like that. Or maybe, it really is a hard problem that would make such services more expensive to operate. In the end we the user would get fewer such free services. Paid services could somewhat tackle this problem as bots are much better kept in check financially that way.
- happytoexplain 3y agoIf moderators could simply know whether something is correct or not on a reading, stack overflow wouldn't need to exist.
- JdeBP 3y agoNo, they didn't. They told the general public one thing, and told the moderators a significantly different thing in private, via a confidential moderator-only communications channel. This put the moderators in the position of having to act in accordance with a secret policy and contrary to what the public policy said, which would make it seem that the moderators were the ones at fault when people pointed that out.
- wilg 3y agoSince this is not mentioned in the open letter about the strike, I have to conclude that what you are talking about is not the reason for the strike.
- JdeBP 3y agoYour reading skills need significant improvement. It's the 6th paragraph of that letter; and also mentioned in many individual explanations such as https://meta.askubuntu.com/q/20324/43344 https://meta.askubuntu.com/q/20324/43344 . Then there are https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/389814/167145 https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/389814/167145 and all of the comments at https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/389583/167145 https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/389583/167145 .
- wilg 3y agoCorrection: Since this is not mentioned until the sixth paragraph in the open letter about the strike, I have to conclude that what you are talking about is not the main reason for the strike.