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A comment on TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor. Parent comment

Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by heartbeats on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @09:01PM (#22612511)
Because it's not a good look. They want to use a clean app, but they don't want to see the cleaning being done.

This is what people want. I mean, if they wanted to see ugly people or whatever, then TikTok would show them it. It's not any different than Tinder filtering out the duds.

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by chillwaves on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @10:07PM (#22612876)
Then why not just leave it to an algorithm? Why the need for editorial intervention?

The person I was responding to was basically saying "let the users decide" but that can't happen if TikTok is lying to the users.

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by fxtentacle on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @03:02AM (#22614310)
These days, a lot of what tech companies call "artificial intelligence" is actually outsourced moderators used to train a linear regression.

So there isn't much difference between algorithmic and manual sorting yet, because the AI needed for algorithmic curation is not intelligent enough yet.

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