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Alphabet's AI-Powered Chrome Extension Hides Toxic Comments (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Alphabet offshoot Jigsaw is launching a Chrome extension designed to help moderate toxic comments on social media. The new open-source tool, dubbed "Tune," builds on the machine learning smarts introduced in Jigsaw's "Perspective" tech to help sites like Facebook and Twitter set the "volume" of abusive comments. Using "filter mix" controls, users can either turn toxic comments off altogether (what's known as "zen mode") or show selective types of posts containing attacks, insults, or profanity. Tune also works with Reddit, YouTube and Disqus. Jigsaw admits that Tune is still an experiment, meaning it may not spot all forms of toxicity or could hide non-offensive comments. "We're constantly working to improve the underlying technology, and users can easily give feedback right in the tool to help us improve our algorithms," C.J. Adams, Jigsaw product manager, wrote in a blog post.
I for one welcome our censoring AI overlords.
It is when it becomes a personal attack.
For example if you call the person stupid for their point of view, make assumptions of their education and parentage, sexual preference...
You can disagree with someone without trying to dehumanize them, and also trying to dehumanize a group of people.
In the 2016 Election Clintons biggest Faux Pas was calling Trump supporters "deplorables" because that was trolling on her end and stating "This group of people I don't care about their concerns and I will classify them as sub human" While Trump in my opinion is the bigger troll, he was playing a different game, Trumps game was to get People to Hate Clinton (Who has a lot of political baggage), while Clinton game was to make more people like her. Her statement, caused a lot of people on the fence to dislike her more then ever.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Waging culture war has consequences. That's why Trump is President. Y'all spent so much time talkin' 'bout "white men oppressive this" and "white men terrible that" the white men done went and assumed you don't like 'em and voted accordin'ly. The colorblind Liberalism was so successful y'all forgot they could do that.