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Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1310692/reddit-is-introducing-a-new-moderator-ai
redditinc.com/news/modernizing-reddits-infrastructure-and-moderation-tools
redditinc.comModernizing Reddit’s Infrastructure and Moderation ToolsReddit is modernizing its infrastructure and moderation tools to enhance user experience, support community growth, and combat abuse.
OK but seriously, weren’t they already using AI for modding for quite a while?
I think they had AI doing the banning reddit-wide, this is just for subreddit specific moderation? I think? I dunno, I dont care enough to find out lol.
I’ve been suspended from reddit like 8 times, every single one of them was a AI decision and every single one of them was a extremely obvious joke, for example, one of the jokes was about me running with scissors, the bot decided that was threatening someone with violence.. So I guess reddit users will just see more of that from now on. Not sure if it matters much though, 90% of the comments are the same stupid jokes from 10 years ago anyway, they’ll just get a bit more bland and boring.
Yeah, this sort of shit’s been going on for years.
Replying to @HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social
Pretty much. The implied plan is that they want to replace the keyword/rule-based automatic moderation system moderators have access to with LLM-based automation.
So if you had a subreddit that banned all use of the letter e, you could whack a rule up to remove according to criteria .*[eE].* which would have it remove all instances of the letter e.
The new system supposedly replaces it with a prompt-based system, where all messages run through an LLM, and you write out a prompt informing it what it should remove (“remove all messages containing the letter e”).
I got a lot of joy from r/fifthglyph, in a long past hour. It was so much fun to find ways to say things, without that ubiquitous symbol.