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"Last month at SXSW, I was talking to someone who explained that they kept
seeing people use the term “Unalive” on TikTok as a way of getting around the
automated content moderation filter that would downrank or block posts that
included the word “dead,” out of a fear of what that video might be talking
about. Another person in the conversation suggested that I should write an
article about all the ways in which “the kids these days” figure out how to get
around filters. I thought it was a good idea, but did absolutely nothing with
it. Thankfully, Taylor Lorenz, now of the Washington Post, is much more
resourceful than I am, and went ahead and wrote that article that had been
suggested to me — and it’s really, really good.
The article is framed as talking about how “algospeak is changing our language”
as people (usually kids) look to get around usually (but not always) automated
moderation tools and filters."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
