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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.
Also known as the, "I'm not mature enough to have my beliefs challenged!" SNOWFLAKE mode
I hear they are working on improving the technology so it can be used for peril sensitive sunglasses.
1. Toxic to whom? Who but me can decide that for me? (Nobody, if I'm still an individual and not a passive-thinking swarm entity.)
2. Why would I want to ignore them, given that there are still real people behind them. (Even when they use automation to repeat them.) Those people have a reason they post that. Maybe they are mentally ill. Maybe they have been traumatized. Maybe they are right, but contradict our society's wrong expected norms. Maybe we just don't like how they make us feel. Like disfigured people.
MAYBE then we should fix the underlying causes, instead of looking away and letting it grow, becoming a problem for Tomorrow Homer. .. hopefully, ... that won't work.
Maybe those comments remind us that we should lift our lazy asses and fix this rotten world that is broken only because we don't do shit about it!
Maybe we want to ignore that we're ashamed of that too.
Maybe,
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!!!"
The problem is with every 10,000 trolls out there is there one spark of genius, with an opposing idea, that is well thought through and should be considered.
While I would like that that idea to be shared to help diversify our frame of thought, there is the other 9,999 trolls, just meant to enrage us, think it is a stupid joke, repeating the same old disprove message, and lie to us enough times where we think it is true.
Sometimes we need negative speech, we need to alert people of a major problem, even if it hurts someone feelings, or goes against the cultural norm. Not all problems can be solved with a careful compromise, sometimes you are right and the greater population is wrong.
However probability is the case is you are in the wrong, and you are just trolling.
I would rather see, increased education in spotting fake news and trolling, learning to ignore or block message. Learning to be conscious of your personal biases, and not jumping onto the bandwagon, just because you bias says this is good, as you go on the sliding scale toward evil.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Outrage is big business on YouTube, they will never ban that. People like Carl Benjamin have popular weekly shows that are nothing but outrage. One single tweet expressing mild concern at a trailer spawned nearly 100 outrage videos, and that's pretty normal.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Still waiting....
So the big fear is that these 'online communities' become echo chambers, that re-enforce ideas. The response of the high minded folks at Google apparently is to make sure you can take your echo chamber with you everywhere you go.
What is a toxic comment anyway. My guess is its any idea Google execs don't agree with.
Repeal the 17th Amendment TODAY! Also Please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
And what part of that requires reading their online comments?
I'm sure this won't insulate people even FURTHER into their own personalized bubbles of self-confirmatory groupthink.
Hint: in a democracy, sometimes people say shit you disagree with
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Hint: Sometimes people say things that hurt your feelings. Sometimes deliberately! It's your job as a grownup to ignore them.
-Styopa
This is the fruit of research into Dragonfly for Google?
Outrage is big business on YouTube, they will never ban that.
I wondered who would mention YouTube first. They could probably do a better job of blocking toxic comments by just shutting them off on YouTube entirely...
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Feature Request: an inverse mode
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