Comment by SnowHill9902
3 years ago
Anything like this for Reddit?
Would translating to other language and back defend against this algorithm?
3 years ago
Anything like this for Reddit?
Would translating to other language and back defend against this algorithm?
> Anything like this for Reddit?
No but it would be easily adaptable especially given that Pushshift is archiving every Reddit comment. Based on some of the feedback I'm getting here I don't know if I should open source this even though it really wasn't that hard to make.
> Would translating to other language and back defend against this algorithm?
Yes. But then you have to send your original comment to a translation company so there are privacy concerns there too.
> Based on some of the feedback I'm getting here I don't know if I should open source this even though it really wasn't that hard to make.
I'd say you should. I'd rather see this as being publicly and freely available to everyone rather than some shady "Big Tech" analytics company.
If the "weapons" exist, I would feel more comfortable knowing everyone can access them, not just an elite that can use it for their own (selfish) purposes.
I am genuinely torn, because my initial reaction was almost the exact opposite, but the comparison to a weapon does ring true. And there is indeed an argument to be made for level playing field. At the very least, maybe counter-measures can be developed.
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I wouldn't worry about that too much as someone's already done something similar for reddit (https://towardsdatascience.com/using-nlp-to-identify-reddito...), and has released their code publicly (https://github.com/jabraunlin/reddit-user-id)
Given the technique used, I don't see why something simple and local wouldn't defeat it? The "easiest" technique would be to use this weighting as a negative metric in rewriting.
> But then you have to send your original comment to a translation company so there are privacy concerns there too.
There are modern offline translation systems available such as Bergamot https://browser.mt/