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Reddit's pathetic attempt to quash dissent
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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They can't. Not without removing the part that makes reddit worthwhile, which are small dedicated communities.
Sure, an AI can moderate shit like /pics /politics /funny /gaming. Those are basically just garbage article/repost feeds anyway.
Can an AI moderate say... buildapcsales? Where you need a human moderator to verify if the deal is valid, add additional info to the flair and mark deals as expired? Technically yes, but it would require a specially trained AI, that knows how to scrape particular websites and avoid detection, which is not a great look for reddit and is also a ton of work.
What about a TV show subreddit? There has been instances where episodes were leaked, and the moderators had to protect the community from spoilers. Can an AI do it? Again, if it's manually trained on this new data it could. But are reddit employees going to illegally download leaked episodes to feed the to the algorithm?
At that point, you'd be spending more time and money on babysitting each AI than if you just moderated manually.
I think Reddit leadership has lost sight of what makes them worth visiting and is trying to simplify everything to become another Instagram/Tiktok.
Give it two years and it’ll be barely recognizable with this leadership, at which point another leader will be brought in to try to return it back to what it was but it will be too late.
Yeah within a year I reckon all NSFW stuff, or at least porn, will be completely banned. That will be what really triggers the downfall of the sites population.
I can see it as a complementary kind of modding system, where it looks for specifically spammy content and auto filters it out for review. The points you bring up are valid and will be very hard for an AI to replace.
I think there are bots that do stuff like that