Tune by Google

AI-powered Chrome extension that hides toxic comments

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AI-powered Chrome extension that hides toxic comments

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Tune is an experimental Chrome extension from Google's Jigsaw that lets people customize how much toxicity they want to see in comments. Set the “volume” of conversations on a number of popular platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Disqus

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Pintable

Who determines what's a "toxic" comment?

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7yr ago

OK @mihamlakar that's gonna be a strike for you!

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7yr ago

Pintable

@jasonsawtelle lol 😂

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7yr ago

@mihamlakar Certain keywords can be a bit of a giveaway. Not totally sold on this, but yeah I can imagine my life would better without having to read racist comments involving the N-word combined with multiple expletives for example.

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7yr ago

Pintable

@colinmcdermott even if these platforms were littered with comments using the N-word (which I don't think they are) I believe it would be better for us to be able to see them and realize that as a society we have a problem. Don't you think so? I find the idea of a bot owned by a private company censoring the world for me really dangerous.

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7yr ago

@mihamlakar - Okay here is a test for you. Go to LiveLeak.com and spend more than 1 minute reading the comments on the videos. There are 20 racist comments for everyone from a reasonable person. Tell me the tool wouldn't be perfect for places like this, for people like me that want to converse with normal people not racists. Dangerous to who? Are good quality sun glasses dangerous? How about waterproof trousers?

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7yr ago

On one hand we criticize filter bubbles, on the other we build things like this :)

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7yr ago

Product Hunt

Hunter

@anna_0x I tend to agree with you. But it does have a "volume" setting to at least filter out complete garbage (clear hate speech, trolling, etc.)? I'm experimenting with it on the lowest filter setting to see what it catches. Consequently, I now check and read all the filtered comments to see what it removed 😅

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7yr ago

@chadwhitaker the thing is, how does it determine which comments are actually complete garbage? How can we be sure it's not just really really rude truths being said, and not trolling? That'd be pretty hard to do.

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7yr ago

OpinioAI

@chadwhitaker @anna_0x or even how does it works with slang, quoting and paraphrasing? Language is highly dynamic (duh) and trolling with local slangs or idioms is hard to catch for humans even. If the algorithm (or whatever) relies on the human feedback to define what are unwanted comments (and it's likely it does) - that is a slippery slope. :) In any event - why not just include total comments black box. Isn't fake-instant gratification-bubble also harmful for young minds on the long run? :) (wondering why people even bother to read comments, barring on own content).

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7yr ago

Product Hunt

This is great does it have sentiment analysis built in or is it just a clean sweep of comments?

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7yr ago

MFY.im

@aaronoleary yeah curious to know how this works.

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7yr ago

black mirror stuff for comments

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7yr ago

Game Of Codes Fantasy Maps

I sometimes deserve some mean stuff, both digital and offline. Everybody does and everybody has to learn to deal with it. Nevertheless, online "toxicity" has a different nature, so it should be an open conversation. I don't think that it's a perfect solution, I don't think that it's even close but let's give it a shot and see...

Pros:

Ok. At first glance, it seems like something resembling this may be useful for kids but...

Cons:

it's simply an unhealthy approach to information.

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7yr ago

I'd love to know how the Chrome extension handles a user's data. I haven't read any (eventual) EULA or other usage information. My fear is basically that Google will use our data for nefarious purposes.

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7yr ago