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by Pick-A-Hill2019 1663 days ago
I think the lede is this ... * " began testing a system to use artificial intelligence to recognize secret words and messages for drug trafficking efficiently in order to ask Twitter to delete them. *

As is almost always the case - the road to hell is paved with good intentions & mutters something, something slippery slope towards automated censorship.

And as always it's "think of the children" or another one of the boogie-man "reasons".

I have an almost Pavlovian response to be against any initiative that uses those dog-whistles.