[HN Gopher] The horror of being a Meta content moderator
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       The horror of being a Meta content moderator
        
       Author : FernandoMax
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2024-01-29 21:18 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | FernandoMax wrote:
       | The psychological stress of the content they need to watch breaks
       | them.
        
       | Clent wrote:
       | This is a job that AI can take and keep.
        
       | 1letterunixname wrote:
       | I met a content moderator manager. Even they said theirs was a
       | shitty job, and theirs was one removed from having their eyes
       | bleed from the nonstop firehose of human excrement.
       | 
       | The problem AI cannot solve is it doesn't get sarcasm, and
       | probably never will.
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       | Perhaps crowdsourcing other users as moderators is a way out and
       | less painful than foisting in onto other human beings as their
       | primary means of survival.
       | 
       | They will keep catching flak because of the lack of moderation
       | that enabled 1 genocide so far.
        
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