Hacker News with Generative AI: Content Moderation

CivitAI Policy Update: Removal of Real-Person Likeness Content (civitai.com)
We are removing models and images depicting real-world individuals from the platform.

Generative AI, AI Policy, Content Moderation

40 points by 50kIters 14 hours ago | 61 comments

Sweden bans buying OnlyFans content (euractiv.com)

Sweden, Censorship, Content Moderation, Social Media, Online Platforms

13 points by GeoAtreides 3 days ago | 4 comments

Asymmetric Content Moderation in Search Markets: The Case of Adult Websites (ssrn.com)
We study the competitive impact of content moderation by a dominant online platform.

Content Moderation, Search Engines, Market Dynamics, Online Platforms, Economics

86 points by amadeuspagel 29 days ago | 66 comments

Ask HN: Why do some links start out [dead]? (ycombinator.com)
I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43647126 and the link was [dead] on arrival. I am certain that nobody had time to flag it: the post was dead as soon as I hit Submit and the page refreshed. Why did this happen? Is this some sort of controversial topic detector or source filter?

Hacker News, Website Issues, Links, Content Moderation

12 points by archagon 43 days ago | 8 comments

NaNoWriMo shut down after AI, content moderation scandals (techcrunch.com)
NaNoWriMo, a 25-year-old online writing community-turned-nonprofit, announced on Monday evening that it is shutting down.

Writing, Nonprofits, AI, Content Moderation, Scandals

7 points by healsdata 52 days ago | 3 comments

Elon Musk Gets Reddit CEO to Censor Critical Comments (thedailypoliticususa.com)
The power of the broligarchy grows as new reporting comes out that Elon Musk, who runs a government department called DOGE and thus can be seen arguably as the government when he speaks, pressured Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on content moderation.

Elon Musk, Reddit, Content Moderation, Social Media, Censorship

16 points by Jacquie11 56 days ago | 1 comments

China plan to label all AI-generated content with watermarks and metadata (theregister.com)
Chinese authorities last week announced “identification measures” for AI-generated content that will require it to be labelled with human and machine-readable notifications.

Artificial Intelligence, China, Regulation, Content Moderation, Metadata

4 points by taubek 65 days ago | 0 comments

Elon Musk may be causing Reddit to censor Luigi Mangione posts (slate.com)
Last week, Reddit administrator Worstnerd shared a significant update to the social network’s content-moderation standards. As of March 5, “users who … upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies will begin to receive a warning.” They added that the company will “consider adding additional actions down the road.”

Reddit, Content Moderation, Censorship, Elon Musk

25 points by DocFeind 70 days ago | 12 comments

Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content (theverge.com)
Reddit will now issue warnings to users who “upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies” within “a certain timeframe,” starting first with violent content, the company announced on Wednesday.

Reddit, Content Moderation, Censorship, Online Communities, User Behavior

28 points by mraniki 79 days ago | 12 comments

Instagram users: Reels algorithm is suddenly serving extreme violent content (reddit.com)
Instagram is now 100% gore

Social Media, Content Moderation, Violence, Instagram

15 points by 2sf5 86 days ago | 3 comments

Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube (surasshu.com)

Music, Artificial Intelligence, YouTube, Content Moderation

96 points by jsheard 96 days ago | 83 comments

Exploring and exceeding DeepSeek's forbidden topics (bsky.app)

Content Moderation, Censorship, Social Media

4 points by Kye 116 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: What do you use for content moderation of UGC? (ycombinator.com)
My co-founder and I started a static site hosting platform. From our past experience in user-generated content, we knew we needed moderation. So, we wrote a very simple script that checks for common phishing attempts and alerts us.

Content Moderation, Community Management

36 points by jhunter1016 117 days ago | 42 comments

RedNote Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators (wired.com)
The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu—better known internationally as RedNote—is scrambling to boost its ability to moderate English-language content after hundreds of thousands of American users suddenly joined the platform in anticipation of TikTok potentially being banned in the United States on Sunday.

Social Media, Content Moderation, International Relations, China, United States

16 points by guerrilla 125 days ago | 16 comments

E.U. steps up probe into Elon Musk's X over content moderation (nbcnews.com)
The European Commission said on Friday it was stepping up its investigation into whether Elon Musk’s social media network X breached EU rules on content moderation with requests for information and an order for it to retain relevant documents.

Elon Musk, Social Media, Content Moderation, European Union, Law

9 points by rntn 126 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: A blocklist to remove spam and bad websites from search results (github.com/popcar2)
This is a blocklist that intends to remove garbage websites from search results, such as AI-generated articles, low-effort spam sites, and thinly-veiled advertisements acting as information.

Web Development, Spam Filtering, Search Engines, Information Quality, Content Moderation

225 points by popcar2 129 days ago | 84 comments

MacStories Won't Stand for Meta's Dehumanizing and Harmful Moderation Policies (macstories.net)
Just over two years ago, MacStories left Twitter behind. We left when Elon Musk began dismantling the company’s trust and safety infrastructure, allowing hateful speech and harassment on the platform. Meta is now doing the same thing with Threads and Instagram, so we’re leaving them behind, too.

Social Media, Content Moderation, Online Communities, Censorship, Ethics

12 points by 8bitbeep 133 days ago | 0 comments

Meta's new content policy will harm vulnerable users (eff.org)
Earlier this week, when Meta announced changes to their content moderation processes, we were hopeful that some of those changes—which we will address in more detail in this post—would enable greater freedom of expression on the company’s platforms, something for which we have advocated for many years.

Meta, Social Media, Content Moderation, Digital Rights

26 points by cratermoon 134 days ago | 34 comments

Attacker Has Techdirt Reclassified as Phishing Site (techdirt.com)
Here on Techdirt, we write a lot about content moderation and even did a whole big series of content moderation case studies. However, here’s an interesting one that involves Techdirt itself from a couple weeks ago. It’s also a perfect example of Masnick’s Impossibility Theorem in action and a reminder of how the never-ending flood of spam and scams provides cover for bad actors to sneak through abusive reports.

Content Moderation, Online Security, Phishing, Case Studies, Spam

19 points by hn_acker 162 days ago | 3 comments

Subscriptions Drive Views of Extremist Videos on YouTube (home.dartmouth.edu)
Study shows viewership of harmful content concentrated among a small group of users.

YouTube, Extremism, Social Media, Content Moderation, Research

16 points by alephnerd 201 days ago | 13 comments

WikiProject AI Cleanup (wikipedia.org)
Welcome to WikiProject AI Cleanup—a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia. If you would like to help, add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the talk page, and see the to-do list.

Wikipedia, Artificial Intelligence, Collaboration, Content Moderation

10 points by erlend_sh 226 days ago | 2 comments

WikiProject AI Cleanup (wikipedia.org)
Welcome to WikiProject AI Cleanup—a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia. If you would like to help, add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the talk page, and see the to-do list.

Wikipedia, Collaboration, Artificial Intelligence, Content Moderation

4 points by jparise 227 days ago | 0 comments

China wants red flags on all AI-generated content posted online (theregister.com)
China's internet regulator on Saturday proposed a strict regime that will, if adopted, require digital platforms to label content created by artificial intelligence.

China, AI, Content Moderation, Regulation, Censorship

5 points by thunderbong 247 days ago | 1 comments

Statement from Telegram regarding content moderation (twitter.com)
The provided text is not an article. It is only a domain name (x.com), so it does not have a lede.

Telegram, Content Moderation, Social Media

15 points by miohtama 259 days ago | 3 comments

Telegram CEO was 'too free' on content moderation, says Russian minister (theregister.com)

Telegram, Content Moderation, Russia, Social Media, Censorship

5 points by rntn 263 days ago | 0 comments

Indigenous influencers keep getting banned for posting nudity on IG and YouTube (restofworld.org)

Indigenous Culture, Social Media, Censorship, Content Moderation

13 points by NDAjam 274 days ago | 2 comments

Show HN: Voluntarily add warning labels to social media websites (github.com/pierotofy)

Social Media, Content Moderation, User Experience, Open Source

27 points by mrwyz 303 days ago | 6 comments

YouTube lets you request removal of AI content that simulates your face or voice (techcrunch.com)