There have been some awful stories about how difficult -- and sometimes traumatic -- the content moderation work can be.
When content moderation of really nasty stuff is necessary, people doing it should be getting proper safeguards, care, compensation, and respect.
The only moderation workers left, will be for the AI companies, and the efficiency here is train once-use multiple times.
If you are going to outsource that function to some other country, might as well outsource it to GPT, cheaper faster better, with no ethical concerns or bad press.
So those workers don't have to experience those traumas again! They do however have to experience the trauma of unemployment. So be careful what you wish for.
I think you're probably in the majority though who misunderstands what gpt et al are doing and think of them as an advance in ML generally as opposed to just a different demo that works most of the time.
We can also reliably GENERATE inappropriate content now, by simply adding a 'nsfw' tag to Stable diffusion, it flips a normal image to an inappropriate one. It doesn't sound very difficult to reverse this.
Also, for these services, you don't need it to be perfect. If even the flagging accuracy goes up significantly, that's a lot fewer human workers to review it.
The AI ecosystem as a whole is also booming massively regarding hardware, datasets, talent, software infrastructure. So that makes development in traditional ML faster.
The accuracy will not go up significantly if humans are already struggling, and I'm not talking about the mental aspects of the job, I'm talking about being unable to determine if the case is accurately violating TOS or not.
This is going to get even more difficult, for both humans and AI, when content is being generated at alarmingly fast rates by AI. So even with the use of AI to combat AI, there is still going to be a gigantic tidal wave of questionable shit to go through.
I'm no expert so maybe you can clarify why high accuracy/reliability is that important for an initial analysis by AI? I would expect the vast majority of reports are straightforward matters?
There's a human poster involved, who can trigger a review if they disagree with the decision, and that review can be attended to by a much smaller pool of humans.
AFAIK reddit mods and "fine nuance" are oxymorons
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2010-08-03-samasourc...