Accounts on independent servers, which Bluesky could never email, get reports, notices and appeals in an opt-in beta. How many strikes trigger a permanent ban?

Accounts on independent servers, which Bluesky could never email, get reports, notices and appeals in an opt-in beta. How many strikes trigger a permanent ban?

When Kauna Malgwi started work as a content moderator, she had no idea of the horrors she’d be forced to watch — or that this would be in service of training AI. She now advocates for the rights of di...

Moderators of the 392,000-member forum now reject any project that uses AI, is built with it or is aimed at it, and say people who don't write English should find another community. A rival subreddit

Hindsight AI has announced a groundbreaking approach to AI content moderation, offering a $1 million guarantee against harm caused by content its model misses. This comes as Google prepares to shut down its Perspective API, a widely used tool for scoring online comment toxicity, on December 31, 2026. The Perspective API, developed by Google's Jigsaw unit, has been a standard for platforms to assess comment toxicity, but it struggles with coded hate speech that appears harmless on the surface. Hindsight's model, trained on 110 languages and 83 MB of real online posts, claims to detect 97.9% of coded language cases, significantly outperforming other models that scored 65% or lower. The company's approach uses three specialized models with fewer than 600 million parameters each, rather than a single large model, and categorizes content into Red Flag, Yellow Flag, and Safe, allowing human reviewers to focus on ambiguous cases. Hindsight's benchmarking of nine AI moderation models against 2,205 real online posts showed their model had a 3.3% missed flag rate and 8.2% false alarm rate. The company is capping its launch cohort at four commercial clients for custom calibration and offering founder pricing to this initial group. Hindsight's CEO, Dean Gebert, emphasizes that coded language, such as numeric codes like '1488' or phonetic misspellings like 'phag,' has become a major challenge for platforms, with extremists raising millions through crowdfunding campaigns and white nationalist merchandise still appearing on major marketplaces. The $1 million guarantee means clients receive financial support if the model labels a post as 'Safe' and that post causes a documented liability event, marking a shift from typical enterprise AI moderation sold as a cost center. Hindsight invites platforms to test its model with their data and run it alongside Perspective for a week to identify where toxicity scoring may have been falling short.

If the Pentagon livestreams an execution, platforms will have to decide whether their commitments to safety and accountability apply when the source of the content is the US government.

Musubi’s open-weight PolicyLM-1.7B aims to make content moderation faster, cheaper and easier to update by translating written rules into constrained decisions, though real-world reliability remains unproven.

via World news | The Guardian — A history of tech giant legal challenges and US political criticism shows there’s no easy solution for the eSafety commissioner Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s online safety regulator has a few levers to limit the public seeing the US’s planned live stream of an execution but history suggests it will lead to a very public fight. The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, announced last week the planned execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan would be live

Die Familie einer ehemaligen Content-Moderatorin verklagt Meta wegen psychischer Belastungen durch gewalttätige Inhalte am Arbeitsplatz.

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The relentless flood of posts, private messages, comments, usernames, and live-chat conversations has created an increasingly difficult problem for online