> Kagi pays for hordes of reviewers? Is this another case of outsourcing moderation to sweat shops in poor countries?
No, we're simply not paying for review of content at the moment, nor is it planned.
We'll scale human review as needed with long time kagi users in our discord we already trust
> Do the reviewers use state of the art tools to assist in confirming slop
Mostly this, yes.
For images/videos/sound, diffusion and GANs leave visible artifacts. There's a bit of issues with edge cases like high resolution images that have been JPEG compressed to hell, but even with those the framing of AI images tends to be pretty consistent.
> How does this scale?
By doing rollups to the source. Going after domains / youtube channels / etc.
Mixed with automation. We're aiming to have a bias towards false negatives -- eg. it's less harmful to let slop through than to mistakenly label real content.