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by jerrya 1983 days ago
> Moderation as a Service the new shovel to be sold during the gold rush?

I've been wondering about that as well, given the chances that ยง230 will be revoked

Can someone spin up a competent ML based/human moderator hybrid to moderate comments at Internet scale? (Disqus?) and perhaps offer an insurance plan to webhosts?

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FB is spending a huge amount of money on this, because they have to pay a growing army of human moderators.

Here's a blog post about their ML moderation of hate speech.

Probably won't sell as a SaaS but shows the big value even with 230 in place

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/ai-advances-to-better-detect-ha...

https://www.sentropy.com/ is a startup that appears to be doing this
Sentiment analysis tech, GPT-3 level AI, and some human moderators in the mix... Maybe it could scale?
I'm waiting for the announcement tomorrow of "AMS: Amazon Moderation Service"