“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints.”

Re:“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council wit... by shadowgovt on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:59PM (#33380838)

Mostly the fact that they completely ignore accessibility.

In fact, if Twitter did want to improve the user experience, automatic OCR of such text and generation of the corresponding alt tag would be a practical improvement. In fact, general recognition of the content of an image and auto generation of an ALT tag would be a significant improvement.

... But that require them to do actual machine learning as opposed to being the internet's bathroom stall wall.

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Re:“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council wit... by xbfjvusb6 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @02:26AM (#33381516)

OCR is a solved problem. It's like one call to tesseract and you're done.

The fact they haven't done this just shows how inept their employees are.

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Re:“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council wit... by snovv_crash on Saturday October 29, 2022 @03:11AM (#33381753)

Tesseract has a horrific API and decades of technical debt. Add to this, it's also very sensitive to fonts. So... yeah, OCR is 'solved', but that doesn't mean it's easy.

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Re:“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council wit... by xbfjvusb6 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @08:11AM (#33383358)

Solved for most the image text I see on social.

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Re:“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council wit... by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Saturday October 29, 2022 @05:47AM (#33382516)

Twitter does a lot of actual machine learning, but mostly to improve ad clickability.

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