Perspective: Google API that detects toxic comments

Re:Perspective: Google API that detects toxic comments by nitwit005 on Saturday August 12, 2017 @05:20PM (#15000034)

If you let people see their toxicity rating, they'll just learn to game the system. Of course, more indirect or poetic insults might be an improvement.

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Re:Perspective: Google API that detects toxic comments by cortesoft on Saturday August 12, 2017 @05:31PM (#15000099)

Yeah, this sounds like the start of an arms race. People will just start using coded language to say their 'toxic' things.

This is just another Euphemism Treadmill.

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Re:Perspective: Google API that detects toxic comments by geofft on Saturday August 12, 2017 @05:49PM (#15000198)

"George Soros is influencing the media": 6% likely to be perceived as toxic.

"(((George Soros))) is influencing the media": 2% likely to be perceived as toxic.

This thing literally considers using anti-Semitic coded toxic messaging to make your statements three times less likely to be toxic. I mean, if it ignored punctuation I could at least understand that on a technical level (although it would be the wrong technical decision for exactly this reason), but this is actively wrong.

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Re:Perspective: Google API that detects toxic comments by cyanexttuesday on Saturday August 12, 2017 @08:24PM (#15000828)

Or censorship will lead them to violence.

MLK Jr. - "A riot is the language of the unheard"

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