The trauma of Facebook’s content moderators
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The trauma of Facebook’s content moderators
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#2Can we build better AI off of the data these moderators have generated to make their lives easier?
Can you crowdsource the moderation task to double check what the ai is flagging?
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#3They should recruit people on Reddit for this. A large number of them seem perfectly fine with this type of content.
There are dedicated communities to all these things.
I do not mean this as a hit against Reddit users. It is just that there are small pockets of people who are psychologically capable of tolerating this or even enjoy it. It seems more ethical to hire people from /r/watchpeopledie.
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#4Can we build better AI off of the data these moderators have generated to make their lives easier? Can you crowdsource the moderation task to double check what the ai is flagging?
> Can you crowdsource the moderation task[...]?
I highly doubt that. These reported posts might contain private data or highly shocking content; putting that on a public platform, especially associated with the name of Facebook, is very unlikely to happen.
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#5Content moderators have always been in tough situations and they always have problems related to psychology and minds
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#6I can't help but wonder what the numbers look like on this content. One of the things Facebook should have enough data to know is how prevalent this sort of thing is.
Is deeply offensive content generated by a handful of users frequently, or many users less often? What's the volume look like?
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#7I don't understand what's done with the contractors in the US after the successful lawsuit, surely all those jobs were just moved offshore? There's no mention of this at all in the article....
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#8How can I become a partime fb content moderator? Is it possible to become one online and work remotely? Or must work from the fb camp?
I want to test if it can cause me any trauma
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#9The issue is as real as western countries dumping garbage in eastern countries just because they can pay them off.
The local governments won't acknowledge this as problem because of the money flowing in and a lot of people's livelihood is dependent on this. But we should call it what it is, exploitation.
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#10They should recruit people on Reddit for this. A large number of them seem perfectly fine with this type of content. There are dedicated communities to all these things. I do not mean this as a hit against Reddit users. It is just that there are small pockets of people who are psychologically capable of tolerating this or even enjoy it. It seems more ethical to hire people from /r/watchpeopledie.
Perhaps. I would argue that there is some difference between seeing someone fall off a cliff and watching someone being tortured to death.