 Big tech now arguing that the platforms they’ve built can’t be held accountable for e.g. racism, as racism has been around for all of human history. Well yes, you know what else has? Nipples. Interesting how easy those were to ban, but racism? “Content moderation is just *so* hard!” Get the fuck out of here. 19 comments
  @anderseknert "no but racism is nuanced" Ah yes it's not like with nipples, where you can distinguish male nipples, which are fine, and female nipples, to be censored, and get it hilariously wrong every time a classical painting shows up.  @anderseknert yes. and the only purpose of racism is to dehumanize and make violence against your targets easier @accretionist @PavelWoronezh @anderseknert So, your mama or your daughter gets online and you're ok with men calling them names? Got it. @servelan @anderseknert @anderseknert They can ban every POC for saying white folk are racist but they have trouble finding anything racist with Trump. Tech bruh's eating privilege flakes for breakfast doesn't help. @anderseknert To block racism, your algo needs to understand the meaning of sentences and paragraphs, and moreover it needs to do so in context. A nipple is just a nipple - that's easy. So I don't think it's that unbelievable that racism is hard to identify without so many false positives as to be unworkable. @anderseknert It's not impossible, and it must absolutely be done, with sufficient resources dedicated to it. But to compare it to filtering out one simple image just strikes me as technically incorrect.  @anderseknert What we see in big tech is the result of the prevailing environment of that industry, and probably all engineering related industries, which is rather reactionary and vastly ignorant about everything that’s not related with tech, like history, ethics, art, etc.  @anderseknert Nipplesblock goes wrong so many times. Automating blocking certain speech on platforms, holding the owner of that tool accountable can go against climate activists ... And making you a criminal every time your algorithm is tricked .. |
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