If Only AI Could Save Us from Ourselves
amarashar's bookmarks 2016-12-13
Summary:
In other words, Conversation AI will enable moderation tasks to be executed more efficiently in communities that already tend to be pretty well behaved. It is incapable of rooting out the worst of the abuse we hear about, which frequently shows up on sites with minimal moderation standards. Policing abuse on Twitter and Reddit is impossible without fundamentally altering the nature of those platforms.