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Re:The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if th... by seanhunter on Friday June 16, 2023 @02:25PM (#36361395)
No. It would be able to do some of the parts of moderation everyone would find easy, none of the stuff people would find hard and would cost a lot.[1] There are AI-powered companies and tools[2] that help with moderation but nothing that can automate everything that human mods do on any site with a reasonable user community.

[1] Source: am responsible for trust and safety including the tech solution and the moderation team for a 1bil+ views site. [2] For example https://hivemoderation.com/ or https://www.openweb.com/

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Re:The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if th... by seanhunter on Friday June 16, 2023 @02:47PM (#36361786)
Don't believe me? OpenAI themselves use a special-purpose model and not an LLM for moderation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.03274

If they don't think this is a situation for an LLM, you can probably safely assume it's not.

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Re:The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if th... by SanderNL on Friday June 16, 2023 @04:35PM (#36363464)
Oh, I believe you. Thanks for the references.
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