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Take a community with AI moderation like Reddit, I've been a participant for years. With the recent push to AI autocorrect and moderation, you can see the chang
by jeffwask 6mo ago
Take a community with AI moderation like Reddit, I've been a participant for years. With the recent push to AI autocorrect and moderation, you can see the changes in language. New words, new ways of speaking, unconsciously editing yourself because you don't want to draw the eye of the bot. It doesn't feel subtle. It feels Orwellian.
- RobotToaster 6mo agoIt's particularly egregious on youtube, where people frequently use words like "unalived" or "self-deleted" instead of murder or suicide, lest they incur the wrath of the almighty algorithm.
- SketchySeaBeast 6mo agoThat seems to me to be an example where the language is forced to change but the thoughts remain the same. Sure, people are using the "safe" terms, but they're using them to continue to subvert the rules, not to bow to them.
- illusive4080 6mo agoThe problem is when that vernacular extends into regular life. I haven’t noticed it yet with unalive, but I’m sure there will come a day. Eventually if the censors continue suppressing the word suicide, we will end up with unalive taking suicide’s place both online and offline. Then, the censors will censor unalive, and a new word will be coined, and the cycle continues.
- SketchySeaBeast 6mo agoI'm not fully comfortable with the shift in language either, but my point is that, even if the language is changed, the thoughts will remain. To use 1984 (is there a Godwin's law equivalent for this now?), the party taught that 2 + 2 = 5, which is changing thought. Social media is trying to do that, but failing. The danger is if it's one day effective, but to date it hasn't been.
- _whiteCaps_ 6mo agohttps://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2024/08/14/kurt-cobain-unalive-suicide-language/74787682007/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2024/08/... > On Friday, a social media user tweeted an image from the Nirvana exhibit at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle. A placard dedicated to the “27 Club” read, “Kurt Cobain un-alived himself at 27.”
- jeffwask 6mo agoThis was the first change that came to mind and one of the more drastic changes.
- BoneShard 6mo agoYoutube comments is a separate genre itself. Due to youtube moderation policy - music video comments are all the same, same tired jokes, patterns. Not an AI slop per se, but feels the same.
- AlexandrB 6mo agoSlop is slop - whether artisanal or AI generated.
- kjkjadksj 6mo agoI recently had a comment removed by reddit. It wasn’t even against the rules. It was anti establishment is all. I insulted the billionaire class in that comment. Class division style comments are now banned. Wouldn’t want revolution on a for profit forum now would we?
- AlexandrB 6mo agoThat's surprising because reddit moderation usually tends the other way and any objection to some part of the omnicause gets you banned.