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Technology to fight abuse online, new from Alphabet

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Technology to fight abuse online, new from Alphabet

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Interesting project from Jigsaw (an Alphabet company) which uses tech to scaleable fight online abuse. It's currently in beta but they've worked with a few big partners like Wikipedia and NYT. In the meantime, Scale might be a good solution for those that need human oversight over internet abuse. cc @lucy_guo

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9yr ago

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@rrhoover So cool that they are working on this with other companies, the more content they have to analyze the better. Definitely needs to be in the API topic.

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9yr ago

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9yr ago

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I'm afraid this will lead to (perhaps accidental) censorship. For example, when I typed "Liberals are not stupid" it said that it was 93% toxic.

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9yr ago

@ninjinka I don't think the intent of the tech is stringent auto-moderation (at least right now). As it stands presently, the API seems a lot more suitable for things along the lines of assisting human moderators in quickly identifying potentially unsavory comments (for more focused and lower-effort moderation) as well as preemptively preventing toxic comments by increasing conscientiousness during composition. Maybe we'll see a really powerful auto-moderator once the model is polished enough.

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9yr ago

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@stedman_rh Yeah, I think that is the intent currently, but I can see lazy mods just auto-deleting anything over a certain threshold.

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9yr ago

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@ninjinka Also, I think it gives you an opportunity to write something better. "Liberals are not stupid" may not appear toxic, but it actually is poor framing (and one that will automatically cause defensiveness). You might write: "Liberals want ______" or "Liberals are aware that ___________" or "Liberals believe in _________" I don't think we should think of comments in isolation as toxic or not, but also in their ability to prevent future toxic responses too.

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9yr ago

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Just tested the "toxicness" of some names... Donald Trump 22%, Barack Obama 16%, Hillary Clinton 5%, Bernie Sanders 4%.

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9yr ago

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@guwallius Proper nouns by themselves should not have a grade, that doesn't make sense.

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9yr ago

Wonder how it deals with sarcasm or quotes such as: "He said to me "Your an idiot" and it showed his understanding of the issue".

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9yr ago

@matthewboyle25 Looks like it thinks that exact sentence is toxic.

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9yr ago

@matthewboyle25 Their AI doesn't get along with sarcasm. One would probably get flagged if they used sarcasm in the messages.

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9yr ago

This is dangerous. A program, trained by wikipedia and the nyt out of all people, shouldn't be able to censor or block people's minds and thoughts. The intention is good, but unfortunately abuse had been a thing ever since we could speak to each other

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9yr ago

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The intention is good, but it may end up in bad places. I get that you're trying to make internet discussions more meaningful. But if the technology becomes good enough it may spread. For example, imagine CEO's setting up Slack so that coworkers can't chat about anything but work. That would kill creativity. People aren't robots, they need an occasional chitchat.

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9yr ago

Cool idea! Didn't explore the API, but I wonder how many orgs would be content to simply suggest to the poster that what they are saying may be toxic, vs just disallowing some types of comments altogether. Could bring up some messy (but necessary) convos on free speech vs hateful/abusive speech online. Also - I wonder why they frame things, even positive things, in terms of toxicity. Something I imagine they'll improve in the future...

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9yr ago

@_tyoung I think this has to do more with the feedback they get. I'm sure there are more than a few people who say a comment is toxic just for kicks, or to maybe see if they can break the algorithm. Remember Tai? Be sure to click the "Seems wrong?" link and give your feedback when you find something like that.

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9yr ago

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