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How much violent content is even out there that you couldn't just trivially block by just collecting a list of content-id? How much of it would you need to watch in full to pass judgement?
I seriously don't get why this is a problem in the first place. Every tiny nip-slip gets you instantly blocked on Facebook and Instagram. They always default to "block" without any closer inspection. They are content moderators after all, not criminal investigators, there shouldn't be a need to watch it in every detail. So why are they watching enough violent videos to cause trauma and not just hitting the block button or let the computer do the work?
It's in the article.
The EU now has a rule that all reports of content must be checked and verified for illegal content like misinformation. They can’t automatically block that content because then people would weaponise reports. At best they can automatically block video and image hashes which have been previously verified as illegal, but these are trivial to circumvent. I think they’ve started using perceptual hashes but these are far from perfect.
I believe they use similar moderation for the US to proactively head off potentially similar legislation to the EU.
Something like 3 billion people actively use Facebook each month. There must be tens of millions of daily reports. I can only imagine the level of planning, staffing, and tools which are required to facilitate that.
They need an AI to curate that kind of content then.
AI is far from perfect, and is unlikely to satisfy the DSA requirements.
It's trivial to circumvent automatic detection