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> Its absolutely bllsht these companies can effect us in this way. I'd be one of the last people to defend Instagram/Meta/Zuck, but is that really your takeawa
by hbn 1y ago
> Its absolutely bllsht these companies can effect us in this way.
I'd be one of the last people to defend Instagram/Meta/Zuck, but is that really your takeaway from this? Execution videos are absolutely against Instagram's TOS and I'm sure they want it on their platform even less than you.
If anything, Instagram's issue is they're too heavy on the robo-censorship. My friend posted a photo of him standing on one leg with a chair in his hands, making a goofy face, with the caption "I'm gonna hit you with this chair!" directed at no one in particular, and it was taken down for, quote: "encouraging violence and leading to risk of physical harm, or a direct threat to public safety." Appeal was rejected too, and the post had to be deleted.
This happens because they're trying to moderate against people posting execution videos. One slipped through the cracks seemingly, but it's not like they don't put a lot of effort into preventing that. It's pretty hard to do at Meta's scale where most of the earth's population is using their platforms.
- TechDebtDevin 1y agoModeration has basically gone away... Don't you think there's a extra bit of ML that goes into the first reel I'm seeing after not opening the app for 10 hours also? I'm making assumptions here, but this was the first reel. These videos have thousands of likes.
- glorpsicle 1y agoYep. Just see YouTube comment sections with clear pornographic images in certain users' profiles–accounts which have existed for enough time for the dumbest of moderation campaigns to have identified as inappropriate.
- homeonthemtn 1y agoStill there tho. The principles are irrelevant to the reality.
- HelloMcFly 1y ago> Execution videos are absolutely against Instagram's TOS and I'm sure they want it on their platform even less than you. Hardly a comforting statement to someone who just watched one of these videos served algorithmically to them on a very, very mature platform.
- biophysboy 1y agoThe ML moderation false positives/negatives do not annoy me as much as the slot machine design of reels/tiktoks/shorts. I do think the constraints of the medium's design (very short, random, visual, crowd-controlled) create perverse incentives.
- bityard 1y agoThe take-away is that not that they are poorly moderated (which is true). The point is that these short-form videos deliver no actual value to those consuming them but come with plenty of mental health downsides. (Literal PTSD, for starters.) The only way to win is not to play!
- TechDebtDevin 1y agoSome of the funniest things I've ever seen are on those platforms, but is it worth it.. Prob not.