Ctrl-Alt-Speech: A Tale of Two Internets
from the ctrl-alt-speech dept
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.
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In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
- Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference (New York Times)
- AI-Generated Content a Triple Threat for Reddit Moderators (Cornell Tech)
- Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors (404 Media)
- As social media age restrictions spread, is the internet entering its Victorian era? (The Conversation)
- Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength (The Conversation)
- Tinder Launches Mandatory Facial Verification to Weed Out Bots and Scammers (Wired)
This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Clavata.ai, a first-of-its-kind, automated content safety platform that allows you to go from defining a policy to enforcement in minutes. In our Bonus Chat, we speak with founder Brett Levenson on how to make T&S more consistent and explainable and the benefits of treating policy as code.
Filed Under: age verification, ai, artificial intelligence, content moderation, disinformation, misinformation, social media
Companies: reddit, tinder, wikipedia


Comments on “Ctrl-Alt-Speech: A Tale of Two Internets”
Wikipedia and AI
Re: your Wikipedia/AI comments, Wikipedia is also having to deal with AI-generated content in text additions to articles, in image additions to articles, and in text edits on the back end (e.g., article talk pages and noticeboards). Editors have started working on guidelines/responses to deal with this. This page and the associated tabs will give you an overview of these efforts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/Policies