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22 days agoThey do this by running a script/app that sends the user’s comment history to OpenAI with the question “analyze this content for evidence of specific political ideology sentiment.
To me the problem is what they are looking for not how they are doing it. Thought experiment: in what way would it be qualitatively different if they hired a team of people in Upper Elbonia to do the same thing?
The randomness of mod assignment could be a good thing. A mod with no subject matter expertise (real or imagined) would be less likely to be biased by their personal opinion.