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> thousands of content moderators in the Philippines

And those are good jobs for people. This is honestly a ridiculous argument. It's simply that technologists don't want to pay for content moderation so they are arguing that it isn't necessary because it is "Sisyphean", which curiously enough raises their margins. It couldn't be more cynical.

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I argued that content moderation probably isn’t the answer and we need to something else. I really don’t know how anyone could possibly read what I wrote and believe I was saying we shouldn’t do anything. Frankly, I struggle to see that as anything other than deliberate bad faith.

I think your argument was in bad faith as well, so not much difference there. The "something else" is algorithms, which are cheaper than people.

I tried googling whether these are good jobs and it seems mixed. Even with good pay it's gotta have some impact on your psyche to spend the day flagging, among more mundane content, the occasional dick pics and beheadings?

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