UPDATE: proof is at https://piefed.social/c/fediverse/p/2035409/proof-of-ai-assisted-political-profiling-by-unruffled-lemmy-dbzer0-com. The main instance is lemmy.dbzer0.com but anarchist.nexus and quokka.au share admin/mod teams so those two are suspect also. I recently discovered that some popular federated instances have been using LLM-assisted moderation tooling that evaluates whether someone has said something bannable. They do this by running a script/app that sends the […]
as seen here and here, some instances are feeding posts wholesale to prompts, for what seem like extremely unsound reasons to me
the two things can go together, and not removing said mod means that if they do not learn they can still do plenty enough damage elsewhere later on
and I say this out of the position of having fucked up in a mod role before