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Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 days ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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[–] 13 points 2 days ago (1 child)

So Reddit is going to funnel money into soulless AI moderators that everyone will hate when they already had completely free human moderators? They're a bunch financial geniuses over there.

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    • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    Fuck you spez. What was once suspected to be the cause of all those heavy-handed permabans is now revealed.

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    [–] 7 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I can already imagine people using prompts in their comments to mess up the LLM moderator

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    • [–] 6 points 2 days ago

    I'll have to create a new Reddit account just to leave again!

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    [–] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    So the moderation quality will fall off the cliff. GG well played

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    • [–] 115 points 3 days ago (13 children)

    AI moderating AI.

    Like seriously, I still engage in some niche subs from time to time, but literally everything feels like bots talking to bots.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Dead Internet Theory, baby.

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    [–] 28 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    They always always always avoided paid moderators, to their detriment. Now they are giving AI a go to be worse than automod.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    they want MOds to play ball, most wont. so thier answer is having AI mods, overriding mods i assume. its essentially turning into FB 2.0.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    What are mods refusing to do that they want to make them do at this point? The protest years ago ended within a couple of days and nothing happened.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    I mean, a bunch of us are here. It might not have been earth-shattering, but it'd be quite self-defeating to say our little community is "nothing."

    The Fediverse received quite a boost from Reddit's fuckery. We may not be "mainstream," but I imagine a lot of us prefer it this way.

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    • [–] 25 points 3 days ago

    Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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    [–] 53 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    They also gate old.reddit behind logins now. More reasons to never return.

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    • [–] 4 points 2 days ago

    Mod: Anyway guys... Fuck Reddit!
    Mod banned....

    AIMod: Sorry, no ableism is allowed per rule 235. You said fuck. This is your 3rd time. You're IP banned.

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    [–] 58 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Using AI to moderate a platform with 90% bots, sure.

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    • [–] 21 points 3 days ago

    Poster, moderator and consumer now

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    [–] 27 points 3 days ago

    It’s already automated by trash AI.

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    [–] 30 points 3 days ago

    Can’t be much worse than what they currently have. Automated trash = human trash.

    It’s gonna be automated neoliberal LLM to ban and shadow ban anyone that doesn’t agree with the corporate status quo.

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    [–] 18 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    this has been happening for some time already. bans after saying a wrong word happen immediately within a few seconds

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    not evenposting, even "looking" at your browser wrong is enough. if the AI assumes your account is botting or something it will ban it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    many times when i started new accounts there they were immediately shadow banned without any notification

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago*

    they seem to have laid off the pressure though as of late, they realized too late that thier bannings were reducing traffic to the site, thus AI-data mining content. although they did not decrease thier ability to detect methods of people using hundreds of accounts at once though, and seem to selectively choose which keywords to ban. also i notice switching between different browsers(forks) may trigger the same thing. my last account(that was 11years old was shadowbanned last year, i kept it alive because i was appealing for a couple months. recently deleted it, and made an acc a month ago, havnt seen a ban YET? corrobated by another user on lemmy, time will tell becaus ei accidentally did switch browsers. im guessing reddit scrutinized serial ban evaders, who also spams to drive people to thier own website or AI more heavily. reddit is intentional ignores propaganda bots though.

    same IP/same device, i think they will still likely ban, but if changed up any of this, they wont notice right away(not all the case though). i only use the new acct for NICHE content i cant find here(none of the big SUB nonsense).

    also time will tell when they fully deploy thier forced LOGINs(as not all browsers are affected by the popups,slowdowns),t hey are figuring how to get around the other browsers still able to force old reddit and the extensions.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 days ago

    I got hit by a word filter too. Each individual word was SFW but the combination could be interpreted as hateful (even though it wasn't in context). So they have some sort of intent-matching system that is poorly implemented, probably piping it through the cheapest haiku model they can access.

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    • [–] 17 points 3 days ago

    Days without hearing a single thing that has made me want to visit Reddit: however old this account is

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    [–] 11 points 3 days ago

    Now instead of a faceless notification destroying your account with no explanation, it will be a faceless notification destroying your account with no explanation AND destroy a bit more of the ecosystem.

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    [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    Hot take: Reddit will improve because the AI has to be better than the HOA-mentality losers that currently moderate Reddit.

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    [–] 8 points 3 days ago

    Can't actually be worse than the human powertripping mods lol.

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