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Can't all the social media companies put comments through a sentiment analyzer before they post, and determine if the poster is writing something anti-social? "Get back in the kitchen" should easily be analyzable through sentiment analysis, and the poster should just get banned. Stuff like this should be low-hanging fruit in my opinion, given what AI can do these days.

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Your post contains the substring "get back in the kitchen". Would you expect to be banned for it?

If your immediate reaction is along the lines of "surely sentiment analysis will analyze all the other words in my post" - consider what happens if your post is split into multiple posts. Some of which, perhaps, are images or gifs rather than words. And some of which refer to pre-existing context between the two people communicating and of which the sentiment analysis cannot possibly be aware.

Honestly I dont even think humans are that good at it sometimes.

Anyway, I should get back in the kitchen. I have vegetables to chop.

You're endorsing a social media platform that only allows "positive" posts and comments. Not only is this easily game-able ("I bet you're a great cook!" instead of "get back in the kitchen") but it also raises a bunch of new dilemmas and problems and a bunch of "unintended" (but foreseeable) consequences.

Next step is to ban your google account when you send something that can be classified as not positive, right?

People will always communicate the thoughts that they want to, no matter what filters they have to push through. At this point the filters are even changing the way young people talk in real life with words like “unalived” entering daily lexicon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/style/tiktok-avoid-modera...

If we are going to go your route, why wouldn’t the user just set THEIR sentiment reader to only show positive comments? Why is this being done at the source instead of the destination.

That’s impossible to do accurately, true meaning relies so much on context. “Get back in the kitchen!” could be very positive if it was a post about ‘taking a quick break while having so much fun baking’ for example…

And that’s only taking about plain speech, not even touching on sarcasm or passive aggressive language, which is a whole deeper level that is even harder to detect…

Can't tell if the suggestion is serious but I'll bite: how do you distinguish from jokes/sarcasm?

Not everybody knows how to use /s or jk.

Or bothers too. This sounds like something I would say to my wife, who doesn't cook and I usually put the dishes away, but bc it's an inside joke between us and close family/friends I would get banned for it.

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