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.

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Just what we need.

[Anonymous Coward]

Great, just what we need: MORE silencing of dissenting voices. This time under the cry of 'toxicity.'

Toxic: adjective - any subject, word, phrase, or idea which a person of left-leaning political views disagrees with.

Except when it's leftists poking their noses into (or destroying) right-leaning areas, it's not toxicity, it's 'diversity of thought' and "you need your echo chambers broken up to prevent radicalization!!!"

Re:Echo chamber

[AmiMoJo]

There is a demo of the system with examples of comments that are considered "loud" here: https://www.perspectiveapi.com...

Scroll down a bit. You can drag the slider around to see the filter in action. In the example climate change skeptics are allowed even on the most conservative filter setting, as long as they can express themselves in civil language.

On the US election example even putting the slider to about 75% still shows the "your[sic] a socialist snowflake!" comment.