r/technology 29d ago

Social Media Reddit’s automatic moderation tool is flagging the word ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent — even in a Nintendo context

https://www.theverge.com/news/626139/reddit-luigi-mangione-automod-tool
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u/prismatic_snail 29d ago

Fun fact: if you use another language to swap out a letter, reddit can't tell what you're typing about. Used it to say Biden in another sub.

Lυigi Luιgι LUΙGΙ

Can't even tell with the last one.

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u/neededanother 29d ago

Looks like a bunch of ppl got shado van below you trying this

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u/prismatic_snail 29d ago

Interesting. No notifications, but I see a disappeared comment.

Guys don't use Latin. I dunno the ins and outs of UTF8, but if I had to guess all the characters of a language are stored together, with all Latin characters sharing a block (German, Spanish, etc). I use Greek, and auto detection doesn't work even for identical characters:

ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ αβγδεζηθικλμνοπρστφχψω

Or just the similar versions:

Αα Β Ε Η Ιι Κκ Ι Μ Νη Οο Ρρ Τ υ ν ω Χχ Υ Ζ

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u/Doubtful-Box-214 29d ago edited 29d ago

I don't think it's about Latin or other "grouped" alphabet symbols. They said they are using AI. AI can already understand basic one letter typos and also guess words to some extent given the surrounding contexts. I doubt even using l33t will help. AIs generally treat keywords as tokens and through a process of elimination( and narrowing down, can figure out words typed like L***i. Maybe Louie Gee would work as different tokens but not sure

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u/Nuclear_eggo_waffle 28d ago

yes, much like famous french-indian restaurant Louis's Ghee