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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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All posts should follow this basic structure:
- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
- What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
- Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
- Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
- Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
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- Post only about bans or other sanctions that you have received from a mod or admin.
- Don’t use private communications to prove your point. We can’t verify them and they can be faked easily.
- Don’t deobfuscate mod names from the modlog with admin powers.
- Don’t harass mods or brigade comms. Don’t word your posts in a way that would trigger such harassment and brigades.
- Do not downvote posts if you think they deserved it. Use the comment votes (see below) for that.
- You can post about power trippin’ in any social media, not just lemmy. Feel free to post about reddit or a forum etc.
- If you are the accused PTB, while you are welcome to respond, please do so within the relevant post.
- Keep the comments in YPTB posts about the moderation action itself, not about the general topic in which the moderation took place.
Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.
Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.
YPTB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.
Some acronyms you might see.
- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
- YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
- YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
- BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
- CLM - Clueless Mod: The mod probably just doesn't understand how their software works.
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So this is how I found out dbzero used an AI chatbot at least once to come up with reasons for why a person is banned. It forces people to debate the perceived "objectivity" of a chatbot, which apparently their admins trust even to use as evidence.
It would be ironic if Israel used the same technology to determine guilt for meting out judgment... Oh wait
Comparing a ban on a social media site to what’s going on in Palestine is certainly a choice…
The tool directly links to things the banned user has stated. As long as the DB0 mods are reviewing the output for validity (I see no evidence they are not) I don’t see a problem.
The AI generated text includes quotes that do not exist. I don't see any evidence the moderators are aware of this fact. If they knew but haven't made it clear, that is a moderator deficiency. If they didn't knew, that is a far worse deficiency.
I believe the right call was made here, but the wrong tools were used to make it. A coin toss might have also yielded the correct result. My concern is that future moderation decisions could be both sloppy and incorrect because AI cannot parse meaning.
(AI is used to decide to kill who to kill in Palestine. I hope this is not an offensive fact, nor that you are implying it should be unspoken until some future time you deem appropriate.)
Every single linked comment works for me - can you provide an example?
Every comment I checked (there are links) works, and every comment I check exists. And matches whats in the summary.
Which quote does not exist? You keep saying they don't, but not saying which.
Emphasis is important here: The AI generated text includes quotes that do not exist.
If you see links, you are no longer in the AI-generated text, but rather in an apparently non-curated comment dump.
For example, surely this is not evidence that the ban is justified... I hope:
You can argue that the quotes are close enough, but that's not what quotes are for. And I believe the ban is justified, but it's very concerning to see how they reach that justification.
The summary paraphrased? Wow. Whodathunkit.
Summary.
The reference text used for evaluation.
Its a direct quote. I don't follow. What is the misquote?
And it includes quotes that do exist and links to them.
Which is why the human who looks at those results can are what’s real and what isn’t and ban someone.
Bot summary
Bot found post:
Bot linked post
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/24309248
Actual Post
The AI identified this disgusting comments and linked to the original source. You are deliberately cherry picking nothingburgers to try and pretend it’s useless.
I’m not seeing any fabricated quotes, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there are. So long as this is just used as a summary tool and at least some of the posts are vetted I still don’t see a problem.
I am aware how Israel uses ML in their military, I’m just saying I think it’s hyperbole comparing banning someone from a website (negligible harm) with someone getting murdered by a state actor. I also don’t find it ironic that DB0 is using them, ML/AI are just tools. If Israel builds bombs with an arc welder does any use of welding machines make someone a hypocrite for criticizing Israel making bombs? Forgive the crude analogy, it’s the best I can come up with while I’m half paying attention to a meeting.