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by politician 1606 days ago
You need to train models on everyone's own labels. As you've said, "offensive" is context-dependent and each listener is huge part of that context.
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Which is why its futile and counterproductive to have content-based mass censorship. Offensiveness is completely subjective. Give everyone a mute button and a blacklist for them to block out any posts with whatever whatever words they are too fragile to see and let people decide for themselves. On large social media platforms it would be far better if we went back to the old system of banning spammers and people posting explicitly illegal content and letting everything else sort itself out.