r/technology • u/marketrent • Mar 08 '25

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/bizarro_kvothe Mar 08 '25

With all the AI in the world you would think that they could use something better than a forbidden word list.

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u/TheCommonKoala 28d ago

Remember when Americans would constantly make fun of Chinese censorship of words like Tianamen or Taiwan? It's kinda crazy how quickly irony struck