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> They are there more as a political org so that facebook can say: "We employ 140 moderators in Kenya alone!" while they do indifferent work that facebook alre
by pizza 2y ago
> They are there more as a political org so that facebook can say: "We employ 140 moderators in Kenya alone!" while they do indifferent work that facebook already can filter out.
Why assume they're just token diversity hires who don't do useful work..?
Have you ever built an automated content moderation system before? Let me tell you something about them if not: no matter how good your automated moderation tool, it is pretty much always trivial for someone with familiarity with its inputs and outputs to come up with an input it mis-predicts embarrassingly badly. And you know what makes the biggest difference.. is humans specifying the labels.
- tossandthrow 2y agoI don't assume diversity hires, I assume that these people work for the Kenyan part of Facebook and that Facebook employs an equivalent workforce elsewhere. I am also not saying that content moderation should catch everything. What I am saying is that the content moderation teams should ideally decide on the edge cases as they are hard for automated system. In turn that also means that these people ought not to be exposed to too hardcore material - as that is easier to classify. Lastly I say that if that is not the case - then they are probably not there to carry out a function but to fill a political role.