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Isn’t the vulgar slang word “ho” and not “hoe”? How hard is it for them to teach their system the correct spelling? Or are they just assuming that people will intentionally misspell/modify words to get around filters…“sh!tshow,” for example.
So, does Microsoft do what YouTube does and claim “no automated system was involved in making these insane moderation choices”?
Tech is just gaslighting us because they know there are no consequences for lying. Or they’ve found a particularly horrible way to “employ” people. Both are in-character.
This bowlerization of what passes for press distribution today will make discourse so, so dumb in the future…
We can see already the “unalive”, [self harm]/”Kermit sewer slide” and “PDF files” creeping in to replace “kill”, “suicide”/”commit suicide” and “pedophile”. People will start to use this unironically in real life speech, while any online discussion deeper than the kiddies pool will become so cryptic to bypass the algorithm that it will be reduced to nonsense.
Big tech has no business regulating speech, and I can write that in peace knowing that I’m connected to the Autopian mainframe.
I joke about it, but it is refreshing to remember that yes, we’re logged in to the Autopian directly, not to Google or Facebook – but also, this is one of the last websites I know where this is true. This is like some sort of last exame of “artisanal Internet”, not pasteurized and/or reprocessed like sausage sludge.
Tl;dr: big tech is changing the way people talk online for the dumber.
AI summary: I’m glad the Autopian isn’t a sausage.
Is this huge effort worth it? This automated hell reminds me of what Amazon sellers go through with the listings submissions and I can tell you that the labor hours involved in keeping things afloat do add up quickly. Plus, it’s such a soul-sucking job. I really hope it’s worth the traffic it brings.
By the way, this is a prime, bullshit, ass-wipe, nude pornography, cunty example how despite Microsoft’s bajillion trillion investment in AI, they still can’t get it to work to the level of 1990’s proofreading.
The dumbassery is so profound.
New De La is soooo good. And a bit sad. RIP Dave.
So when can I buy my box set of “Too Hot for The Autopian”?
I’m super bummed that this won’t be a conduit for the wider world to learn about the exploits of Mack Hardigraw.
Although, a sanitized version may be even more enjoyably bizarre, so you know, maybe look into that?
There was a plotline where a business novel was translated into Japanese, then back into english, suddenly becoming a cult hit in Japan, containing phrases like “Super karate monkey death car”!
The ASC is topless. Can’t have that.
It’s striking that AI or whatever auto-moderation system that technically isn’t AI is so bad at this.
And that leads to even more questions. Such as why are these systems so bad if they’ve been around long enough to have bugs like this fixed?
There’s the superficial answer that execs are too cheap to accelerate development, which is probably true.
But that also leads to the question of what kinds of issues are making these systems too expensive to implement cheaply? And what does that say about dreams of using these tools for tasks more critical and risky than flagging Antonio Filosa as an act of violence?
The basic rule of complex systems is the longer they are in use, the harder it is to conceal hidden costs and risks., and the smaller their cost advantages become. People selling these systems are in a race against time to capture markets before reality sets in, and the window is rapidly closing.
Among other things, nobody’s getting fired for these kinds of dumbass rejections, but if a tit shows up on MSN’s front page, someone definitely is. This is the consequence of that kind of corporate culture.
I moderate a different webhouse.
The automod is set to laissez faire, so mostly picks up only wildly over the line stuff.
I can rescue most things that get caught in error, so there is still discretion in the setup.
AI cannot do what I do.
I think that 1st one the AI is critiquing the font coloring on the 8-track, it’s violently offensive to graphic artists nowadays, but that’s like, it’s opinion, man.
Never pay human moderators to do a good job when you can have AI do a bad job for free. That’s like modern MBA 101
For free only after you buy $4BN worth of software from OpenAI.
This is why I’m not really worried about AI taking over the world.
Oh, I’m still worried. The people who are pushing its implementation don’t care that it’s useless, they just care that it’s free.
Soon the only people buying products will be automatons.
Wait!
They don’t get paid, right?
So who are the customers?
It’s only’free’ they spent billions on this. But that never seems to show up in the cost equations. A year or so ago I read an article that showed how ‘AI’ ended up being way more expensive than an actual Hume. I assume this is still true.
The AI was never the problem, just the same horrifying people who’ve been turning the internet into a perfect hell for decades for money and power.
Yeah, social media has only gotten worse despite many people repeatedly pointing out that it was getting worse. But as a society we’ve distilled capitalism so far down to its core purpose of increasing profits that being a useful or good product is far from the top of the list of priorities.
Sure, AI is leading media and news into a useless hellscape of idiocy, but there’s money to be made (or at least the idea of money to be made) so the decisionmakers continue to push in that direction.
I have never had the patience to deal with nonsense of that magnitude without resorting to lots of very real profanity, violence, and maybe some nudity in no particular order and probably all at once.
Now do a story about your old Wang computer. Polka dot lady thrilled by her own touch will never pass. BTW, I love her.
Matt I just renewed for a year but getting the must be a member to read the slack message
Is MSN the origin story of V-GINY?
Woohoo! December 32nd comin’ up!
I mean, they did launch on March 32nd.
Congratulations – that’s the joke 🙂
When I was working for Boeing Aerospace Company, our sister Boeing Airplane Company had some really big delivery they were working on that had to be done by the end of the year. So, the delivery paperwork was signed on December 32, (whatever year).
Wow, Azure AI is bad.
Wow,
AzureAI is bad.ftfy, lol
Sell! Sell! Sell!
Technically Mr. Game & Watch’s oil panic is a very violent attack if you time it right in Super Smash Bros.
Did you really say any picture of a woman causes arousal?
What happens when you click Contact Us for help? Does that get you to some hapless button-pusher who can be persuaded to press the Override button–or, at the very least, explain why something tripped the moderation?
I’m assuming not, or you would have told us about that (or in Exhaust Leak, I suppose), but surely the link does SOMETHING?
You can appeal, but it takes so long it’s just not worth it.
I really hate that for y’all
What a tidy illustration of why we love it here: the little website that highlights transparency, whose staff are in the comments all day, can’t get their content featured on the big website that doesn’t even have a Contact Us on their home page.
Keep fighting the good fight!
But it does make us all feel better when we hit that “report” button.
It turns a light on and off in Albania.
They know how violent a spring compressor failure can be.
That’s the stuff of nightmares, no question. That and a tire bead-seating explosions.
Isn’t everything a graphic image though? Sort of like a noisy noise.
you are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
That is the correctest we can ever hope to be.
Noise is unwanted sound.
I found a house far enough away from the expressways you had no highway noise.
I decided road noise was totally unacceptable, but occasional machine gun fire and random explosives were okay.
White, pink, and other kinds of noise are often wanted. And some people like Merzbow or Pat Metheny’s Zero Tolerance record.
Noise is more like patternless sound.
The road noise I’m talking about is a constant pattern, but I find it extremely unpleasant.
In that location, it’s 24 hours a day close to the freeways.
Pink noise is sound equalized to present as flat noise, and is primarily used for masking other noise, so successfully that a system used by the IRS for privacy reasons caused an evacuation when it shut down.
People were onvinced the air conditioning failed and they were hot.
The ac system was working fine.
People often use noise generators to mask other more intrusive noises.
You can tune a system for your specific hearing curve.
Even flat background noise can elevate stress levels significantly.
I am convinced low quality sound (non-harmonic) is dramatically more unpleasant, even when we can’t identify why.
The IRS system I mentioned was a very high quality, robust system.
This relates to what automotive engineers call harshness.
I live in a very quiet location now.
Living in a city, I didn’t realize how loud the background often was.
As long as the ambient sound is quieter than the ringing in my ears, everything’s fine.
There is new research claiming to essentially retrain the software the brain uses to interpret sound, to treat tinnitus.
I don’t know much else so far. Some drugs help some people too.
Any extra sound can cause stress and hearing damage.
That is worse with tinnitus, so if you’re providing it through an audio system, quality matters.
Further, if it’s music or audio for video, a system with low distortion, low frequency bass will make you comfortable with less volume.
Less volume = even cleaner sound and more comfort, whatever you put through it.
Soundproofing a room isn’t as hard as everyone thinks either.
As long as the ambient sound is quieter than the r̵i̵n̵g̵i̵n̵g̵ voices in my ears, everything’s fine.
I guess that is better. As long as the machine gun fire and explosions aren’t inside your house.
They were from some distance and not constant. I seriously considered how annoying that could be in such a quiet location. I decided it sounds like freedom.
Came from a training facility I worked for at one time.
Big agriculture bought the property, then wouldn’t sell the house though it didn’t matter to them.
I enjoy roosters crowing and general chicken sounds, even insanely loud ones.
Funny how that works.
It’s mostly animal sounds here, horses, cattle and crows. Deer are usually silent.
A compressed spring in a spring compressor is a graphic image imho.
It also could result in violence.
I was coming to comment, it may not be graphic yet but it sure as hell looks like it wants to
Touche
I was watching a car show from across the pond, and they were using a spring compressor, and then a ratchet strap to pull the suspension together. So exciting waiting for something to pop.
Look up Thailand bomb squads.
They really carry a stick for poking at things.