Hot take: Reddit's old censorship rules beat their new AI moderation by a mile

I got a 30 day ban last month for posting a link to a local news article that had a minor swear in the headline, something a human mod would have let slide in 2 seconds. The new AI system flagged it as "hate speech" because the article mentioned a protest where someone yelled at a counter protester. Has anyone else noticed the bots are way more strict than the old volunteer mods ever were?

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phoenix_lewis1mo ago

Oh man, tell me about it. I got flagged for "promoting violence" once because I commented on a cooking sub that my grandma's recipe for chili called for "bashing" the garlic cloves with a rolling pin. I mean, I guess my old lady is a certified threat to national security now. Idk, it feels like the AI takes everything way too literally while also somehow missing the actual point. Maybe it's just me, but I swear a human mod would have looked at that and laughed instead of sending me a warning that made me feel like I was on some secret government watchlist for aggressive garlic behavior.

wendy8201mo ago

That AI bot sounds like it's reading headlines like a robot with zero context.

brianreed1mo ago

Yeah, "zero context" is pretty much the whole problem with how everything's going now.

caseythompson1mo ago

Zero context" is putting it nicely lol I feel like that bot and I have the same reading comprehension skills sometimes. My brain skips right over the important parts and lands on whatever random detail isn't even relevant. Basically a human news headline robot but with worse formatting.