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Then they’re operating at too high a scale
by edgyquant 3y ago
Then they’re operating at too high a scale
- Arnt 3y agoMost people find it hard to imagine what my work even looks like (I'm a software developer, approximately). Then I'm operating at... [complete the sentence]. Or if you don't want to complete the sentence, you may instead explain why abuse handling at scale is something people should understand while the 120-frame stack trace involved in my current task is too complex/difficult/whatever.
- theptip 3y agoIt’s not cheaper for smaller companies to do this kind of moderation. If it’s too expensive even with Google’s economy of scale, then it’s going to be even worse for small businesses.
- dmcq2 3y agoHow many people do you think they should employ at the job? Ten years ago China was already employing two million people to monitor the internet. Google and others employ tens of thousands of people round the world to monitor pictures or videos that their AIs flag, and it is a nasty job with a lot of burnout. Scale makes the job easier if anything.
- j16sdiz 3y agoEmploying 2 million people is (relatively) easy. Train them for all applicable law in the world is hard.
- yibg 3y agoThat’s the scale of the internet though. It’s either google or 1000 smaller googles. The amount of work required doesn’t change.