Ahhh no no it's not a bot - the moderator is using OpenAI to check if a user has said anything that makes them a promoter of a political ideology that they consider to be bannable.

The human mod still presses the ban button themselves, manually.

[–] Shatur@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't they say it was a local model?

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah also the whole "they're trying to police wrongthink" is funny coming from the dev that implemented this:

~~Imagine the outcry if someone had a warning label: "🚨 Promotes zionist perspective"~~ see e.g. https://piefed.social/post/2035412

apparently it's not on a user basis but for certain sites

[–] Shatur@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Whoa, I didn't know it! I hate this.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 hours ago

Uh sorry apparently it's not on a user basis but for certain sites, still a shitty thing to do but not as egregious