I’ve been looking forward to this one, and now I think I have enough examples to tell the story of a kind of censorship that is mostly harmless and totally hilarious. It’s one we did to ourselves to some degree, but it’s not exactly self-censorship. Nor is there any individual telling us what we can or can’t write.
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I like listening to your music recommendations Matt, and have sent you a couple over time, by submitting (replying) to the Autopian ‘tips’ email address (so I have no idea if you ever get them, or if anyone still monitors that account for tips). I think this was the last one I sent to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unbOAoF7uAU …the MSN automoderator might take exception with it, but it’s funny and a bit of a banger despite being super low-budget. 😉
I always wanted an Audi A2, despite my having sworn off German cars made after the 1980s due to too much personal experience keeping them on the road. I see Doug DeMuro recently had Cars and Bids import a base, first-year A2 since they can now be imported (though presumably not registered in California). Another auto channel just imported an early Fiat Multipla (often referred to as being the ‘ugliest car in the world’) and (of course) I want one of those even more than an A2. The ‘platypus’ indeed. 🙂
I don’t know that I’d consider it a slur, but when a friend of a friend referred to my dog as being a little ‘chonky’ I took a bit of offense on her behalf.
🙂
“That’s a van being unloaded.”
A white, windowless van. Maybe it’s just a contractor going about their businesses or maybe, just MAYBE it’s a predator about to pounce on a hapless victim.
How’s an AI to know?
Joke’s on them – it still says “Shitbox” on the layer below. The version with the asterisks is just a layer in the template I turn on or off. But the nasty sweary unfit for polite company pixels are still there, lurking just below the surface. Neener-neener.
It would appear the MSN auto moderator tool engages in graphic stupidity.
The A2 puts a hurt on my eyes.
“suspension pieces in our posts being, uh, suspended”
Ha ha ha ha ha…
“A2 depicts graphic violence”
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Literally laughing out loud, hilarious!
I mean, they’re not wrong…
I’d say it’s more like “incites” violence after looking at it! Ha ha ha ha ha
Also just FYI: I also LOVE the
A Lexus TX jokes and think it’s hilarious there’s a vehicle w/ that name
“Chonky?” Really?? Although, having learned just last year that “sp*z” is considered to be a horrible slur in the U.K., maybe chonky means something horrible in some other country where MSN is really popular.
“What does it mean when someone is chonky?
When a person is described as chunky, it means they’re dense and thick-bodied, and sometimes quite muscular. Chunky is an American English word, from the sense of chunk as “a thick piece of something,”
I mean, it’s not nice, but it’s not exactly offensive in that context.
It’s generally meant as a term of affection:
“See that cute guy?”
“Which one?”
“The chonky one”
“Oh yeah – He IS cute”
Nice! I thought that was just for animals (cats in particular).
Well the Jordan Lee fishing guy is seen as blocking because fishing is a red activity. They still haven’t removed the censorship. In addition I have copied a sentence from a published article and been censored. MSN isn’t updating anything. However I have found if you go on the MSN news page search Autopian it brings up a few Autopian stories and then you can select follow and you get more stories and you flip the algorithm to allow more Autopian stories. Every member should try to follow on the MSN SITE to help Autopian.
What a Richard move.
See You Next Tuesday!
Man if this is using Copilot that’s awful. Also I had no idea MSN was that big of a deal. I’ll have to check out The Autopian [Clean] – definitely no Uncle Adrian
Well why don’t you just print us out in nice and gentle Comic Sans and read it softly to yourself in the saftey pen for frightened bed wetters in your fucking nursery school?
You shot the last carrier pigeon. scruffy thing, imperfect trailling feathers. and an improper swoop, I do not post or write often, self editing oft prevents my ideas, proofreadingg always stooops me.
So the comments don’t syndicate, you say
Ahahaha I’d never trade The Autopian [Explicit] for the [Clean] version!
Never change, Adrian.
It’s far too late now.
Man guys, AI is so smart I can’t believe any of us have jobs anymore.
And people think we’re getting robots and robotaxis. I’ll write it so MSN can read it. FUCK NO
Maybe if Microsoft pumps another trillion in OpenAI they’ll have this auto moderator figured out.
Need more data centers to suck up electricity.
Does MSN block articles about Microsoft re-opening 3-Mile Island because of graphic violence?
Don’t make me go Fukushima on you.
VAG is Volkswagen Audi Group???
To this day I thought it was Volkswagen AG…
What’s even better was you once needed a VAG tool (specialized and overpriced OBD2 reader) to run VAG connect software to troubleshoot their ECU’s.
Wait, a VAG tool is not necessary anymore? Modern times…
Still wonder how BMW let the E and F chassis BMWs use the ENET interface, which is just a regular network cable with some resistors on the OBD port side.
The Porsche is silent
I always thought it was “Volkswagen Auto Group”, but I looked it up and you’re correct: It was officially named Volkswagen AG in 1960.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen
AG apparently stands for Aktiengesellschaft, which basically translates to “stock business”.
I think I will name my next band:
VAG Clam Aktiengesellschaft Nut Mustard
Highly entertaining
They will NOW, tyvm 🙂
Like Johnny Dangerously, his name is an adverb.
♪ If you’re happy and you know it, say a swear… ♪
Boob!
Hiney!
Mitten!
I love these behind the scenes posts! Whoever came up with the idea, needs a bonus check for it.
Hithertofore I promise everything I write will be rejected from MSN so fucking hard that Bill Gates himself is on the phone to Matt so fast his head spins.
We can be fairly certain that any pics of your (former) Rodius depict acts of violence.
Come to think of it, there are probably pics somewhere of you committing actual acts of violence against the Rodius!
Sorry Adrian every comment I make needs multiple edits before it is accepted. But thanks for trying to emulate me I feel honored
“A quick search indicated this isn’t likely” but a much longer search revealed some intriguing content, coincidentally also banned from MSN.
I thought VAG was just Volkswagen AG (Aktiengesellschaft)?
Said the same above, missed yours. But I think that in fact it is Volkswagen AG.
IIRC, one of the pictures I posted of a German car’s engine was flagged as “graphic violence,” and, you know what, MSN? That’s fair. 🙂
Point on the toy Volkswagen to the part that hurt you.
Points generally in the direction of my V10 TDI
It amuses me how the staff here owns or used to own a boatload of VWs and they’ve all been rather horrid. Except for Jason’s Beetle, I guess.
Jason’s beetle was so horrible even the people that stole it abandoned it.
Those W8/12 and Diesel V10 are really violent.
To your wallet at least.
Yu vill assume ze service position!
Yes Mistress.
I knew before you got there that Ranting (most delightfully, Jason and Adrian) would make up a BIG part of that et cetera.
This behind-the-scenes stuff is great; hooray for TFTS and long live Autopia!
I’ve self-censored a lot since we started doing this.
Now I know it makes Matt’s life harder, well let’s fucking dance Hardigree.
Adrian still seems a bit salty about the Rodius experience…
He needs to man up.
I want to cut out all the flagged naughty words MSN caught, put them on magnets, then place them on the office fridge so people can create poetry.
I would buy that for my fridge.
Jordan lee DISCOUNTS chonky pens
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Not surprised the bot thinks “discount” is a curse word since most businesses (not this one) look at people as piggy banks, but it’s still pretty funny
Well I don’t know if that’s true the Autopian is always trying to get my money asking for shout tree fiddy all the time. Yes those of you who don’t understand humor that was a joke. I know this site can’t get gifs yet but can we get just one approved to educate the members who don’t have a sense of humor to tell them relax it’s a fucking joke?
Puckered butts are what Made America Great Again.
And don’t you forget it.
(/English accent) Take a look at discount, bruv! Who does he think he is?