Adult content creators are seeing an influx of "sensitive content" labels on Twitter, which could be tied to the site's newly implemented sensitivity settings for advertisers.

Article by 404 Media: It reports on a newly introduced label that hides whatever exTwitter considers to be sensitive content, not only limiting the reach of such content, but also making nigh-inaccessible altogether.

  • SatanicNotMessianic
    5·
    1 year ago

    “Sensitivity Settings uses machine learning to reduce adjacency to varying levels of content according to a brand’s sensitivity threshold in an upcoming campaign,”

    if content_type==“NSFW” display_ad=false

    is not “machine learning.”

    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      If they had done what you said, they wouldn’t have 90% of the issues listed in the article. I think they were dumb enough to use machine learning for this and they are using it also to deanonymize their users. Which is very on brand for the kind of techbros that are willing to work for Musk.