This is the same level of expert AI that is being put to use in self driving cars (eg Tesla) and other critical faculty things.
I hope the ethical AI people pursue these foundational issues in these AI ML thingamajiks.
Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
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Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#72https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/13711918852686725... > What's possible is a Twitter staffer tried to block a street address, but the postal syntax acted as an escape sequence, or the original was multi-line and they only pasted the city. What postal syntax in the US looks like an escape sequence?
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#73I love the sheer number of hacker news commenters saying “Well I tried it, seems to work”. At what level do you guys go “I’m just going to assume those 10 other guys aren’t lying”
> At what level do you guys go “I’m just going to assume those 10 other guys aren’t lying” For something easily testable? Never. Edit: Account just got locked, lol.
I am actually pondering if I should do this to lock my account.
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#74Twitter has increasingly slid into user-hostile territory. I moderate /r/Twitter on reddit and we have a pinned thread just showing nothing but complaint after complaint, because content moderation is a failure when you attempt to scale it. We'd like to get Twitter Comms to address it at some point, but the company is opaque. It's just nuts.
Content moderation is trivially easy when your users pay for it or have skin in the game. Making accounts paid would immediately fix the problem as few people would want to risk losing real money.
Content moderation only becomes a problem where your business model is "growth and engagement" and your revenue depends on your users generating as much content as possible.
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
> At what level do you guys go “I’m just going to assume those 10 other guys aren’t lying” For something easily testable? Never. Edit: Account just got locked, lol.
I am actually pondering if I should do this to lock my account.
You get it back in 12 hours, so it is not a big deal.
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#76As Twitter has been accepted as the ultimate arbiter of what may be said, I suggest the city of Memphis rename itself "Graceland," thus pleasing all the Elvis fans, boosting tourism, and avoiding sticky complications about legal technicalities.
What about Memphis, Egypt?
They are welcome to steal Graceland's name, after all turn about is fair play.
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#77Users: social media is too addictive. Twitter: we're testing out a new safe word feature to address that. They should keep this. Randomly pick a new word each day, anybody who says it gets locked for a day.
Eventually everyone will get locked, and Twitter will be a much better place by virtue of having no users.
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#78I (foolishly) took people at their word, thinking the bug had been fixed.
It has not.
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#79In general it seems like moderating platforms with millions/billions of users is a fool's errand, but is required to be attempted due to the level of centralization we've ended up with. Regardless of how much of it is automated away via blackbox ML algorithms lacking transparency or via outsourcing to cheap labor that spends their days looking at terribly offensive and shocking content, the end result is going to hav…
Killfiles worked for usenet
I’m curious, How were those killfiles different than muting or blocking on Twitter? Usenet was a little before my time.
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#80So, we can seem how Twitter's censoring works now, start at a word that's only associated with Memphis, then draw gradually closer. Alternative spellings, alternative utf-8 lookalikes, alternative characters (leet speak, etc.). Usually if a company blocks words they do common substitutes too like: memph1s, m3mfis, ... do they block rot13(), how about ₘeₘphis, ᶬ3ₘph15??