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X is still merely acting like a BBS. It is not offering a tech-solution. Community-Notes could become that if AI moderation is trustworthy (judging for facts, a
by ncr100 3y ago
X is still merely acting like a BBS. It is not offering a tech-solution. Community-Notes could become that if AI moderation is trustworthy (judging for facts, and tone).
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Forums for political discourse are chock full of opinion. Facts are under-quantified.
This article's set of rules describes a Gentlemen's Handshake, and offers nothing technologically-speaking.
"No":
> .. posting or sharing content that may suppress participation or mislead people about when, where, or how to participate in a civic process
> You may not impersonate ..
> may not deceptively share synthetic or manipulated media that are likely to ...
Nothing here is enforceable from a tech perspective. It's all requiring passive human moderation. To contrast, Reddit's Up / Down vote mechanizes moderation, making it active. And one naive evolution could be an AI judging factuality and tone-appropriateness.
Clever voting schemes (Reddit, +) don't scale. AI scales but could be "wrong". Human moderation is easily subject to astroturfing.
Q: What is the right next-step in moderating conversation to fit within the boundaries of the forum?