While I’m skeptical AI technology is ready for this, I actually think it’s one of the better changes they’ve proposed. A truly impartial AI moderator can enforce polite discourse instead of flamewars.
Of course I don’t trust Reddit to do it right, but theoretically I dig it.
A truly impartial AI moderator can enforce polite discourse instead of flamewars.
They’re basing it on data mining existing flagged comments, though. So their dumb bot will be trained on the dumbest samples. And it may not be able to tell the difference between why someone would get banned from /r/politics vs. r/conservative vs. r/catsstandingup
It seems like it would be a trivially straightforward thing to add the sub’s rules and moderation policies to the bot’s context whenever it’s operating on something in a particular sub.
Though it sounds like this initial implementation is aimed at enforcing site-wide rules, in which circumstance the AI shouldn’t care what subreddit you’re posting in.
Knowing them, even if it only starts out enforcing site wide rules, I expect it to start banning random people and IPs for no discernable reason, followed by r€dd!t coming out and saying it’s a great success
Yep. Conceptually, it actually sounds like an appropriate application of the technology, but I expect Reddit to faceplant on the actual implementation. I mean honestly, the only way they were able to make a mobile app that people enjoyed using is by basically outlawing 3rd party clients.
While I’m skeptical AI technology is ready for this, I actually think it’s one of the better changes they’ve proposed. A truly impartial AI moderator can enforce polite discourse instead of flamewars.
Of course I don’t trust Reddit to do it right, but theoretically I dig it.
They’re basing it on data mining existing flagged comments, though. So their dumb bot will be trained on the dumbest samples. And it may not be able to tell the difference between why someone would get banned from /r/politics vs. r/conservative vs. r/catsstandingup
It seems like it would be a trivially straightforward thing to add the sub’s rules and moderation policies to the bot’s context whenever it’s operating on something in a particular sub.
Though it sounds like this initial implementation is aimed at enforcing site-wide rules, in which circumstance the AI shouldn’t care what subreddit you’re posting in.
Knowing them, even if it only starts out enforcing site wide rules, I expect it to start banning random people and IPs for no discernable reason, followed by r€dd!t coming out and saying it’s a great success
Yep. Conceptually, it actually sounds like an appropriate application of the technology, but I expect Reddit to faceplant on the actual implementation. I mean honestly, the only way they were able to make a mobile app that people enjoyed using is by basically outlawing 3rd party clients.