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JAB <noway@nochance.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>On 05/12/2024 21:52, Justisaur wrote:
>> As to their algorithm, I believe you posted about them changing to AI 
>> moderation, which is orders of magnitude more difficult, or impossible 
>> to figure out what the hell it's doing in the black box of it's program. 
>>   From what I've read on it, basically no one knows what it's doing and 
>> all they can do is retrain it, or implement layers on top of it that try 
>> to stop it from doing things they don't want it to.  Then there's the 
>> fact they may not even actually try to stop it from doing things that 
>> they *say* they don't want it to, or that one would expect fairness out of.
>
>My experience of algorithms, mainly FB, is that they are really bad at 
>detecting sarcasm. So I once said 'burn the heretic' and I got hit with 
>a seven day ban for extremism language. Do they not understand Brits 
>have built a whole way of life around sarcasm.

Americans rarely get British humor, so an American Algorithm has little
chance.

These are the folks who decided to remake Fawlty Towers, and decided
that Basil had to go.

Xocyll