I don’t know about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),but TDS Trump Derangement Syndrome? Now you’re on to something.
Social media damages your brain.
I’ll bet someone could write an algorithm to weed out the beheading videos. Save the human review for things that are more of a judgment call.
Another group of wanna-be victims.
When it comes to liberals will will from this point use a “HOW ARE YOU A VICTIM TODAY?”
Another case of outsourcing gone wild.
I am in no way suggesting to discriminate against people with disabilities, but if a significantly larger portion of your staff have PTSD and are involved with making decisions about people, society, and culture, you’ve got a problem. People who suffer from PTSD are prone to paranoia, dissociation, misplaced association (anger and fear) for their problems and of course because of that a fringe level social activism. People with PTSD have a difficult functioning in society and in groups, and that in no way means that they should be isolated or discriminated against. Quite the opposite. But victims of sexual assault or domestic violence are much more likely to believe it when Tom Brokaw intimates that Trump is a misogynist.
Not just PTSD, it’s crazytown working for those contractors. Facebook should be ashamed and embarrassed by their operations model. Every day I laugh at Facebook users. They have no clue what they are doing.
This article doesn’t say, but they outsource these moderator jobs to Thailand. And places like that.
But even there, these dollar a day workers are traumatized.
Self-inflicted trauma no doubt.
There has got to be a better way to deal with this.
A long time ago, they used to say “Television is a vast wasteland.”
I think Social Media is worse.
“I don’t think it’s possible to do the job and not come out of it with some acute stress disorder or PTSD,” he said...
Well yeah if you’re a snowflake.
What exactly is “hate speech” anyway?
If I say I HATE spinach, does that qualify?
Try working in a hospital for 30+ years
I’ve seen thousands of people die
I’ve witnessed suicide by GSW to head
I’ve seen uncounted people with terrible suffering
I’ve witnessed workers threatened at gunpoint
I’ve met a man who raped and murdered a good fried of mine,
in the ER after he was violently captured by police
It is a very good thing I can lean on Jesus
while the average Facebook employee makes around $240,000.
I just sent that to a couple of in laws addicted to Facebook and claiming to be conservatives.
Except for the very crappy pay, it actually sounds kinda fun.
LOL! Independent fact-checking not permitted! Use Snopes!
FB would do itself a real big favor if it hired real grownups with open minds and terrific historical and cultural knowledge to do the moderating. And then put them in some isolated town, far away from the influence of their loony left FB coworkers.
It seems like they have been pushing AI to perform creative work in order to take jobs that humans are currently doing. Maybe a better thing for AI to be focused on is cleaning up the messes that the digital revolution has created. Sitting through 8 hours a day of beheading videos is something human beings cannot do without becoming damaged as a result.
If, for example, AI was written/trained to recognize genre and to some extent correctness, it could be used to take the vast array of creative material that is already out there, languishing and unsorted, and machine sort it into a usable and profitable form.
Recognizing the genre of terrorist propaganda video or writing could be an early testing ground since you know darned well that if a video isn’t criminal or terroristic in nature, some user is going to be there to ask “why do you always delete my videos?!”
It’s just a thought. This is bothering me.
I think their instincts are good in getting people to make judgment calls, its just that they are being used for far more clear cut cases as well that are flagrant violations.