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Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says AI should moderate social media (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a vast gulf between automated moderation systems deleting posts and calling the cops on someone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

You would be shocked.

My ex has called the cops on me more than a few times in our past, because she just didn't like how I was doing things. After I remarried and moved in with my now wife, my ex called the cops and CPS on us for abusing our kids (we don't - we just have reasonable rules). That was a fun one and ended up with me getting a lawyer and dragging her to court. The judge was not happy with her. Also, my neighbor called the cops on us a few months ago because one of my kids was having a temper tantrum, and then again because my two older kids (and some neighborhood friends) purposefully excluded her kids from whatever game they were playing. We had a talk with our kids about excluding others and why you shouldn't do that, but between you and I, those kids are brats and bully a lot of other neighborhood kids.

That's just a taste of crazy. It's not out of the realm of possibility for someone to be batshit enough to call the cops over an innocent baby-in-the-bathtub picture (though like I said, parents shouldn't be sharing that on social media anyway, but here we are).