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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 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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