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Well, if "Please dont kill yourself" triggered the "kill yourself" algorithm, that might be a problem too.


An automated moderation system should be smart enough to detect sympathy. And if it's in doubt, it should leave it to a person - a native speaker of the given language, because a lot of these systems are trained on English and western language and sentiments.


> An automated moderation system should be smart enough to detect sympathy.

That sounds like a super hard natural language understanding task.

> And if it's in doubt, it should leave it to a person - a native speaker of the given language, because a lot of these systems are trained on English and western language and sentiments.

That costs lots of money that could be going to the shareholders or executive compensation instead.


What if shareholders themselves are tasked to do that stuff?


I know that my comment is a trivial observation, but an automated moderation system capable of detecting sympathy sounds like science fiction. Frankly it seems like humans struggle at it.


"Please don't kill yourself" can mean "kill yourself" depending of the original post and poster.




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