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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36063172
A black box you can't look inside making determinations that could affect your access to the entire site. How dystopian. It's also pretty clearly only useful for pruning users en masse and not have to bother with the responsibility a moderator should be subject to.
So glad I deleted my account
Overall, I can see liking this. But mostly I think the summaries should be public.
In general the problem with moderators is they can be fairly partisan. I don't know if it's still the case after the whole API ... thing, but certain groups of moderators had access to bots that did what is essentially equivalent to the sort of thing. What tended to happen is the good mods would become overwhelmed and bring on a "power mod" and the powermod has secret axes to grind and political agendas that they bring with them into the sub.
Another problem I generally had with reddit towards the end of my serious engagement there is that a lot of things reported to admin started being evaluated by non-American English speakers who don't have the cultural context to understand sharp turns of phrase and plays on idioms. Americans would understand the words mean the opposite of what they literally say, but you can't expect ESL overseas contractors to understand these nuances. So I would be concerned that AI is similar... except for the fact that it's not really a change from the status quo.
Would be nice if we also had AI summaries of moderator behavior and if these were visible to everyone. I wouldn't be surprised if admin have (or soon will have) access to AI summaries of moderator activity and behavior. So that might be another shoe to drop. I can see it can be good if it improves modding for the good mods who just want to build communities. Basically it might reduce the need for the powermod protection racket.
I was going to say that this might actually be a good idea, but then I remembered how often AI summaries get key details completely the wrong way around.
I still think it's a good idea in concept: modding is hard, or so I hear, and this could be a very valuable tool if it worked as it's supposed to. I doubt it would.
There are some details that I'd have done differently too, if I was somehow forced to implement something like this. For example, for each point in the summary (e.g. "talks about US politics") there should be a list of comments/posts by the user to exemplify what they say and how they write. It's useless if the summary doesn't show you what it's based on.
Lol, you can tell which commenters have never moderated anything in this thread, IMO. If it weren't for the high likelihood that these summaries will be wrong an appreciable percentage of the time, this would be a huge help for anyone moderating medium traffic subs. Those types of subs, especially if they have relatively hands-on moderation to keep them from being complete cesspools, often involve seeing a comments or post that is borderline, and feeling like you need to go look through the poster's history to figure out if they're a bot or a troll. Something like this that actually worked, especially if it linked back to a sampling of the posts/comments that it is referencing, would be a big help in that. Also something like this that summarized a user's moderation history would be pretty useful.
Nah. It's just creepy.
What the fuuuuuck 😳
I can see how that could be a useful mod tool, but still (see line 1).
So happy I left that hellhole 😮💨
Edit: Although I guess this means I should have invested the time in deleting all my posts; probably too late now 🙄
And damn, now I really want to know what their AI thinks of me! 😅