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Old 02-01-2022, 12:33   #1156
RichardCoulter
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Re: Police to get tough on internet trolls.

Just been listening to this programme:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct2kyf

It seems that some sites are having difficulty reconciling the right to free speech with the rights of people to be protected from harmful content.

This looks to me to be due to AI not getting things right. When the new laws come into effect, it's not going to be possible to manually oversee & moderate every post with the millions that are made every day. I think that improving the AI used to do this, with the right of appeal to a properly trained moderator should one disagree would improve this to a great extent.

What seems to have been happening is that posts are being automatically deleted by AI with posters sometimes facing negative sanctions, even when it's been deemed to have simply been viewed as a possible problematic subject.

This programme takes an interesting look at both sides of the argument:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1nj0

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