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> I don’t even think it would be that expensive. Agreed. I'll eat my hat if there aren't a few Reddit engineers working to leverage LLMs to make auto-moderati
by rootusrootus 3y ago
> I don’t even think it would be that expensive.
Agreed. I'll eat my hat if there aren't a few Reddit engineers working to leverage LLMs to make auto-moderation way more effective. I don't know how soon they'll get to the point of not needing any volunteer moderators, but I won't be surprised if within a year or so they have only professional supervisors for all the popular subreddits.
- dmonitor 3y agoYou’re insane if you think that is happening in the next decade. Half of moderation is just deciding what kind of content you want on the subreddit. Should discussion be serious or jokey? Memes allowed? Or maybe a joke is being run into the ground and needs to get banned just to keep the memes funny for longtime browsers? Something like r/SmashBros closing the subreddit for a weekend when the new game launched and funneling new users (ie casual normies) into an alternative subreddit is sometimes the best thing moderators can do, but getting an AI to intuit when/whether to do that would be nigh impossible.
- rootusrootus 3y ago> Should discussion be serious or jokey? Memes allowed? Or maybe a joke is being run into the ground and needs to get banned just to keep the memes funny for longtime browsers? Thank you for your perspective. In one paragraph that explains so much about why Reddit sucks.
- dmonitor 3y agothey're herding cats out there
- htrp 3y agoLLMs for auto moderation would cost significantly more than the labor that the mods put in.