Post #2094017

2026-05-06 00:56 UTC

Although ... the claim is that they're not actually using ChatGPT but instead a locally-hosted model (and the output says ChatGPT as an inside joke), and that they didn't base the decision primarily on the LLM output but rather it corroborated the mod's own judgement. See https://piefed.social/c/fediverse/p/2035409/proof-of-ai-assisted-political-profiling-by-unruffled-lemmy-dbzer0-com and the replies. Messy. One thing's for sure, I agree with db0's that inside jokes don't belong in modlogs. And this may well explain why it didn't make as much of a splash as it might have: it's Lemmy instances so there isn't as much crossover or awareness. @laurenshof @ophiocephalic @smallpatatas @onepict

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@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social 2026-05-06 01:29

@jdp23 Couple thoughts. One, zero reason to accept without scrutiny the claim that an actual ChatGPT model is referenced in the logs as a joke. What's funny about that? Two, your mention of judgement is pertinent, very little of it seems to be in exercise at that instance. Looking at the log, I could see that the modded user in question is a zionist. I was able to make that determination with a quick glance at a handful of the user's posts; the same thing every mod on every instance does when they receive every report. No statistical fabrication of an "ideology analysis" simulation by an LLM was required, just a few seconds of reasoning by the good old wetware in my own head. What is happening to people that they suddenly believe they are incapable of this and require a dependency on a slop machine to achieve basic thinking? Whatever the answer, anyone incapable of exercising this kind of judgement should not be a moderator on the fediverse. If a user is trolling and has shit politics block them and move on with life @laurenshof @smallpatatas @onepict

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@db0@hachyderm.io 2026-05-13 09:03

@jdp23@neuromatch.social @laurenshof@indieweb.social @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social @smallpatatas@gotosocial.patatas.ca @onepict@chaos.social There's plenty of awareness. it's just that this was an attempt at manufacturing outrage, based on a nothingburger, as part of a wider campaign to discredit and ostracize anarchist instances on threadiverse. Most people in the microblogging space don't realize that these hit-pieces did not come out of nowhere and the people making them have an ideological opposition to principled anti-zionists stances so they're attempting to weaponize microblogging outrage with spin and half-truths. The lack of further outrage in the threadiverse is because every such attempt has been addressed and debunked thoroughly and people can see that. Unfortunately the microblogging peeps are not plugged in to further discussions, so they continue to belabor under the half-truths they were fed originally. The worst people have managed to say against the FAF moderation is "well, maybe they could be a bit more professional about it, and they make some bad calls sometimes.", which, fair enough, but also, no shit, we're only humans....

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