Once again, I got that scary message: your account is locked! You have done a bad thing! Self-harm? How did I encourage anyone to do self-harm?!? I had to reread it twice before I saw what I had done. “Cut yourself some slack.” Cut yourself. Oh. Yes, if I were a dumb Twitter auto-program, I might react to “cut yourself.” You’d think Twitter could program in “except when followed by ‘some slack,’” but I guess not.
Reminds me of when Twitter suspended me *for an entire week* because I tweeted about a game of football. Apparently, saying one of the teams was "destroying" the other was akin to inciting violence.
I appealed, and was denied. Tried again, denied again.
When I got suspended from Next Door for discrimination, it was because I called a lead a jerk. (No idea of his race or ethnicity.) I appealed, and the rejection came back within minutes. In short, I suspect appeals are also handled by algorithm.
My twitter account was permanently suspended months ago for stating that I hoped Russian soldiers were killed when discussing a particular military engagement.
Yeah, there’s just no way a human reviewed that.
At least not one from America.
Reminds me of when Twitter suspended me *for an entire week* because I tweeted about a game of football. Apparently, saying one of the teams was "destroying" the other was akin to inciting violence.
I appealed, and was denied. Tried again, denied again.
Bollocks.
Twitter is anti-football!
When I got suspended from Next Door for discrimination, it was because I called a lead a jerk. (No idea of his race or ethnicity.) I appealed, and the rejection came back within minutes. In short, I suspect appeals are also handled by algorithm.
My twitter account was permanently suspended months ago for stating that I hoped Russian soldiers were killed when discussing a particular military engagement.
exactly that happened to me!
This is why I'm more concerned about AI incompetence than a Skynet scenario.
Right? We'll all be killed by an AI typo. (Or by a typo in the instructions given to the AI.)