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 code was used to pull a users comment history into a text file, which was then used to ban the user, right? Leaving the fact that it was then fed into an LLM that may or may not have been self hosted based on “jokes” aside, how is code used in an official instance action like moderation not “official instance” tooling?
Do you post a public log of all your “official instance tooling?” How often, and in want instances, has “unofficial instance tooling” been used to do official instance actions like banning users?
The code was used to pull a users comment history into a text file, which was then used to ban the user, right? Leaving the fact that it was then fed into an LLM that may or may not have been self hosted based on “jokes” aside, how is code used in an official instance action like moderation not “official instance” tooling?
Do you post a public log of all your “official instance tooling?” How often, and in want instances, has “unofficial instance tooling” been used to do official instance actions like banning users?