Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Moderation Algorithms

 


Having used Google, YouTube and reddit extensively ... and watched what is happening with Facebook and Twitter (two sites I avoid like a Wuhan virus), and having started two software companies ... I am deeply suspicious of this notion of moderation algorithms being blamed for effecting censorship on the internet.

My image of what is actually happening at Big Tech companies is that key words in many user interactions are flagged to rooms-full of lefty millennials who end up being the actual censors ... not a bit of amorphous software.

If I were grilling these Masters of the Universe in Congress, I would press for an answer to this supposition.


STAND UP FOR TRANSPARENCY!



6 comments:

Dick Hertz said...

Yeah, I've long suspected that there is a room full of rock hard boner cream advocates moderating my Twitter feed.

DEN said...

Ha ha now you are parroting Trump's "Fake Trending" accusation.
Twitter should be trending Trump's:
- financial fraud
- missing tax returns
- indebtedness & $450 million loans
- funding from Deutsche Bank
- Ordering the Firing of NOAA top scientist

The fear is palpable. These transparent attempts to divert attention from Trump's unfitness are both lame and laughable. #FireTheLiar

WINTER IS COMING!

George W. Potts said...

Repetition is the sincerest form of groupthink.

DEN said...

Hitler's Credo: If you repeat a preposterous lie often enough, the gullible will come to believe it. Check those MAGA rally attendees. Armed, stupid and dangerous.

DEN said...

When you say "tired-old" I can envision a room full of spittle-flecked lefties thinking "apt" and questioning who the real hater is here.

WINTER IS COMING!

George W. Potts said...

Are you wishing bad news? See my latest post as a fuller answer to your Nazi reference.