[ExI] ok this explains it

[William Flynn Wallace]

There have to be content moderators.  How else could they stop posts that
the algorithms can't figure out?  I can't see how they would lose their
jobs.  I use Facebook very occasionally and never see ads.  I have wondered
about that.   bill w

There is 'apparently' no downside to Musk.  I think we will find out.
Maybe it will shake the foundations of other media companies - a great and
good thing, I say.   bill w

On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 3:39 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *Sent:* Saturday, 30 April, 2022 1:07 PM
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>  >>…But Ari makes it sound like exposing that and stopping that is a bad
> thing.  I don’t understand.  Can anyone explain please?  spike
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> >…What if a media company wanted to discriminate against some political
> party?  It's a private company, so it's not illegal - true?
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> >>…Making this transparent would be a terrible idea… billw
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> >…So… this “news” guy appears to be arguing that NOT discriminating
> against a particular party is a bad thing, but discriminating against a
> political party is a good thing.  Well, is it?  MSNBC, is that it?  Was
> this the most epic self-own ever?  Was it done for humor? spike
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> Billw, an idea just occurred to me.
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> Reliable sources say Twitter employees are having a collective meltdown
> over the Musk purchase and of course that opens them to ridicule.  But… if
> true, why is it a crisis for Twitter employees?
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> The reason I missed this before is that I wasn’t asking the right
> question.  The right question is this:
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> What do Twitter employees do?
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> If I owned a social medium, my primary interest would be figuring out how
> to make it earn enough cash to pay all those employees.  To do that
> requires that most of your employees are selling ad space.  Ja?  A few
> managers, a few accountants, a few trainers, the rest: selling ad space.
> So… their job doesn’t really change at all under new ownership.  I don’t
> see why it would.  Do you?
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> But what if… your social medium was employing people to override or
> enhance the filtering algorithm?  It is pretty easy to see that Musk (being
> a businessman who has indicated he has no interest in discriminating
> against some political party) would lay off all the human content
> moderators, or reassign them to something that makes actual money, such as
> selling ad space.  That’s what I would do.
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> So, I could see where that would be a huge blow to those whose current job
> is to moderate content.  They don’t want to sell ad space.  They want to
> moderate content.
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> OK so… what if… Twitter human content moderators exist.  What do they do,
> and how do they do it?  What criteria do they use to determine if they will
> override the moderation software?  If Musk makes his filtering algorithm
> public, then he wouldn’t need humans in the loop overriding the software,
> ja?  So… out they go adios amigo.
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> Assuming one is a Twitter employee but not a Twitter human moderator, is
> there a downside to the Musk purchase?  What is it please?
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