From Camping To Cheese Pizza, ‘Algospeak’ (using code words to evade detection by content moderation technology, especially when posting about things that are controversial or may break platform rules) Is Taking Over Social Media

Forbes ^ | September 19, 2022 | Alexandra S. Levine

[DoodleBob]

If you’ve seen people posting about “camping” on social media, there’s a chance they’re not talking about how to pitch a tent or which National Parks to visit. The term recently became “algospeak” for something entirely different: discussing abortion-related issues in the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Social media users are increasingly using codewords, emojis and deliberate typos—so-called “algospeak”—to avoid detection by apps’ moderation AI when posting content that is sensitive or might break their rules. Siobhan Hanna, who oversees AI data solutions for Telus International, a Canadian company that has provided human and AI content moderation services to nearly every major social media platform including TikTok, said “camping” is just one phrase that has been adapted in this way. “There was concern that algorithms might pick up mentions” of abortion, Hanna said.

More than half of Americans say they’ve seen an uptick in algospeak as polarizing political, cultural or global events unfold...And almost a third of Americans on social media and gaming sites say they’ve “used emojis or alternative phrases to circumvent banned terms,” like those that are racist, sexual or related to self-harm, according to the data. Algospeak is most commonly being used to sidestep rules prohibiting hate speech, including harassment and bullying, Hanna said, followed by policies around violence and exploitation.

We’ve come a long way since “pr0n” and the eggplant emoji. These ever-evolving workarounds present a growing challenge for tech companies and the third-party contractors they hire to help them police content. While machine learning can spot overt violative material, like hate speech, it can be far harder for AI to read between the lines on euphemisms or phrases that to some seem innocuous, but in another context, have a more sinister meaning.

[Celtic Conservative]

I’ve also heard it called “The coof”.

CC

[MayflowerMadam]

And there’s “Amish”, but I don’t know if that’s unique to FR, since I don’t do other social media.

[ifinnegan]

What?

I don’t know.

[sauropod]

You mean like, "Zot!"?

[servantboy777]

Feral gubbamint

[mewzilla]

Freedom of speech...?

Deep States don’t like that.

In any case, the big thing now is just to refuse to allow comments on certain stories.

But that’s a tell, too, isn’t it...

[Flavious_Maximus]

The scumbag cretins on the Jan 6 committee will be receiving cupcakes soon. They are going to be judged guilty and receive a fitting punishment starting on Jan 21, 2023. /Here is my spit emoji.

[BudgieRamone]

freedom seed dispenser or seed dispenser are popular on the Monster Hunter (Larry Correia’s Books) group im in on FecesBook. Imsure the monitors know its “gun” but its just an in your face thing thats done.

[Tallguy]

Guessing the Italian expression for “African American”.

[mewzilla]

Speaking of cupcakes, from our neighbors to the north...

One way to end the plague of "vaccine" injuries: delete the records—as they're doing in Alberta! Just as Canada's "free press" has largely stopped reporting people "dying suddenly" (unless they're famous), Alberta's "health service" is now erasing ER records of the "vaccine"-injured

And why I wouldn't discuss the above out of hand, from our side of the border...

Houston, We Have a Problem (Part 1 of 3)

BTW, EMRs are dandy things. Since there's no paper trail, a lot can be hidden, including malpractice.

Something to keep in mind.

[mewzilla]

It was a lot easier to catch the doctoring of paper files, wasn’t it...

[joshua c]

ok

now what does comet pingpong mean?

are there layers to this stuff?

[No.6]

... almost started rattling off a few but nope. Why help the would-be dictators at their job?

I will admit some pleasure when — since the meme army steamrolls the left constantly — the left then gets ‘triggered’ or hyper-sensitive about anything that sounds like a catchphrase. They like the term ‘dog whistle’ which is also amusing; their whole vocabulary is based in the racist things their fellow Democrats have done to blacks.

Anyway on occasion the memelords have created an entirely fictious ‘hate’ symbol and had the left run with it, freaking out over innocuous uses of the ‘OK’ hand symbol (no really, it’s ‘white power’ even when Buckwheat used it in Little Rascals!) and such.

Hey, they wanted to play at scrambling the language, so tough luck losers.

[printhead]

I heard that Beavis pitched a tent in science class.

[John Milner]

I remember reading some books back in the day. I forget the title or author, but the setting was San Francisco and the stories revolved around the SF Police Dept.

They had a code word for criminals who happened to be black. “Canadians.” At the time I thought it was cute and clever.

[DoodleBob]

Thank you for the links.

Re: excess deaths. This is a magnificent piece of research. And it's why so many models and data science and artificial intelligence are frequently rubbish. The real power of ANY statistical or mathematical model, is in the data cleaning and exhaustive processing and visual examination of the data. The vanishing of the deaths from the CDC database is troubling. Nonetheless, this research and the identification of the growth in "Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)’ ICD death code group" is the stuff that should make people take notice. No AI, no wizardry needed. Thanks for posting.

[Salman]

People will always find ways to get past the censor.
If the censor is an algorithm, it's especially easy.
The ruling class kid themselves things really will go away if they are invisible.

And furthermore, a serious revolutionary movement would not use social media.

[gundog]

Not for internal communication, perhaps, but certainly for spreading their venom.

[Vaduz]

Indeed they better not give up their day job to play spy.

[drSteve78]

A serious revolutionary movement would not use social media.

Unless they were really ID ten T she pull.