A random awful.systems user posted the recent disinfo about the FAF using LLMs for moderation. I went in and tried to clarify the situation, and I admit I got kinda upset when they kept ignoring my statements in order to be snarky. Eventually I believed we reached an understanding but I was sadly mistaken which I should have imagine as awful.systems residents kept downvoting all my replies.
As I finished writing a post to explain our official instance policy, I noticed they just jumped to defederation anyway, the reason being…the same disinfo I just went through a lot of effort to debunk. They just called my debunking of the disinfo as “DARVO” which is just disgusting trivialization of harasser behaviour by @dgerard, but I digress.

Anyway I finished my post and once I posted it in our instance, I thought they would at least allow me simply to link to it to provide what we actually believe.
Lol, nope, instant delete and ban

Here’s their charming admin casually admitting that even though we explicitly told them this is not what we’re doing, they just going to disbelieve and make up their own headcanon.

Anyway, I shouldn’t be surprised, dgerard has been known to spread disinfo, so this is just more of the same.


YDI
Using LLMs as part of moderation and then downplaying it is shady as hell.
It’s not downplaying to give facts and state the correct history of actions.
null is a troll, they’ve been engaging in bad faith to create more discord ever since the drama around @rimu@piefed.social started. Their replies in the thread about a mod on !fediverse@piefed.social locking comment chains to stop discussion are all petty trolling attempts.
Not upplaying != downplaying it.
Honestly kind of think null should be permabanned. Nothing they’ve ever contributed has been in good faith and I have a feeling they will continue to troll in the future as the rest of this unfolds. Just my opinion.
Agreed, nothing good has come from them at all.