Chebucto Regional Softball Club

Content moderation is hard expensive work. #Bluesky justifies it's partnership in large part because they do not have the financial resources to do human moderation.

Aaron Rodericks (@aaron.bsky.team)

Ensuring user safety at scale takes massive resources. That’s why we’re excited to partner with ROOST—helping smaller orgs enhance safety, meet regulations, and compete. More safety, more competition, more user choice. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Bluesky Social (bsky.app)

AI marketing has succeeded such that organizations can now publicly justify it for unproven applications based on labor cost savings. This is a slippery slope. The same rationale can be applied, for instance, to teachers. It is very expensive to educate children. Does this make it a good application for AI?

5. If a partner company uses ROOST does that shield them from responsibility for content moderation?

6. Apparently ROOST is justified in part by the proliferation of AI generated CSAM material. So, isn't using an AI to address a problem created by AI kind of ironic?

7. Has it been proven that AIs are actually any good at this kind of content moderation? Will it not just create an 'arms race' with perpetrators figuring out how to 'trick' ROOST?

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Here are some questions:

1. When a partner company utilizes the ROOST AI does it send all content and user data to ROOST(Google/OpenAI)?

2. Is this this content and user data then used for training the ROOST AI?

3. If so, does the training data stay within ROOST or does it precipitate out to Google and OpenAI LLM models. That is, is this a backdoor for general AI training.

4. Do partner company's justify any data exfiltration based on TOS terms for "improving the service."

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Have you heard about ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools)?

Last week #Google, #OpenAI, #Roblox, and #Discord announce that they were forming a non-profit partnership to provide a free AI for content moderation to online media companies. Eric Schmidt is the Founding Partner of ROOST.

Roblox, Discord, OpenAI, and Google found new child safety group

Google, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord have formed ROOST, a new non-profit organization to help improve child safety online.

The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Leading Technology Companies and Foundations Back New Initiative to Provide Free, Open-Source Tools for a Safer Internet in the AI Era

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROOST) initiative launched at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris. Incubated at the...

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This free AI will be used by partner organizations including #GitHub, #Mozilla, and #Bluesky to automate content moderation.

Partnerships | ROOST

Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

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