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Lots of venture capital money behind it. I wonder how quickly the enshitification will begin.

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[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 84 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

Yeah… no. None of that sounds appealing.

‘Curbing toxicity with AI’ means a bot is going to ban you because it doesn’t recognise sarcasm.

And ‘new tech to verify your identity’ sounds like a privacy violation at best.

‘Verifying that you own a product before they let you post in its community’ is a complete lack of understanding of how people use places like this.

Digg can fuck right off.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

Your comment would be autoremoved for the last line lol

[–] pool_spray_098@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, the verifying that you own a product thing is so dumb.

"Hey community. I'm thinking about purchasing , but I wanted to know if it can do X, Y, and Z."

"your post has been deleted because you have not proven that you own ."

Wow, it's like they made Reddit even worse.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

“Hi I wasn’t paid six dollars on Fiverr to post here” (does increase costs obviously but marginally for high-margin/volume products)

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 18 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

While AI obviously is not perfect and is flawed in many ways, having AI sift through the torrent of comments and then flag problematic submissions for human review is likely going to be extremely effective with minimal false positives. Though I do say this as a person whose Reddit account is currently banned for 3 days for "inciting violence" because of a knife-based joke.

[–] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

"I run faster with a knife!!"

[–] BlackDragon@slrpnk.net 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I got banned from reddit last week for "threatening violence" basically because my comment contained the word "die." It wasn't a verb.

Reddit is super aggressive with this shit now. If you say "Don't drink bleach, that would kill you." Their AI bullshit just sees "kill you" and bans you for threats.

Site is fucking useless, don't even bother at this point. It's mostly robots talking to other robots at this point anyway.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Meh. I got banned just for saying something about stabbing Donald Trump in the neck and watching him bleed out before alerting the staff of the Urgent Care I was waiting all day in. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

Ai flagging for human review is likely the best option.

The problem is that the humans reviewing things are biased, assholes with no sense of humor.

[–] pinesolcario@lemy.lol 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Ah I see someone else suffering the same shit as myself. Inciting violence for comparatives is what happened to me. No, neither side should celebrate violence. Human life is invaluable.