Comment by ThrowawayR2

8 days ago

> "Doesn’t it seem like LLMs can assist with moderation rather than making it harder?"

The moderators will need to pay for LLM service to solve a problem created by malicious actors who are paying for LLM service also? No wonder the LLM providers have sky-high valuations.

Compute providers are gonna get paid, yeah. We can hope though that there’s something asymmetric in the required expense for good guys va bad guys though. For example “subtly embed an ad for X while you pretend to reply to Y” does seem like a harder problem you need a cloud model for. TFA mentioned crypto blog spam, which could easily be detected with keywords and local LLM, or no LLM at all

There’s already a lightweight LLM tool for moderation that doesn’t take much to run.