Re: How not to start the day

On 07/12/2024 04:00, Justisaur wrote:

On 12/6/2024 6:00 PM, Xocyll wrote:

JAB <noway@nochance.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
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On 05/12/2024 21:52, Justisaur wrote:

As to their algorithm, I believe you posted about them changing to AI
moderation, which is orders of magnitude more difficult, or impossible
to figure out what the hell it's doing in the black box of it's program.
   From what I've read on it, basically no one knows what it's doing and
all they can do is retrain it, or implement layers on top of it that try
to stop it from doing things they don't want it to.  Then there's the
fact they may not even actually try to stop it from doing things that
they *say* they don't want it to, or that one would expect fairness out of.

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My experience of algorithms, mainly FB, is that they are really bad at
detecting sarcasm. So I once said 'burn the heretic' and I got hit with
a seven day ban for extremism language. Do they not understand Brits
have built a whole way of life around sarcasm.

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Americans rarely get British humor, so an American Algorithm has little
chance.
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These are the folks who decided to remake Fawlty Towers, and decided
that Basil had to go.

 As an American that grew up on PBS (which played a lot of BBS shows) and enjoys it, I agree.  The number of shows I've seen even recently where they were remade here after I saw the British versions first is astounding.  I don't understand why they need to be remade here. Generally it's much prettier people who are far worse actors, and the scripts rewritten for the braindead.  Wait I think I just answered my own question.  *facepalm*
 

I can understand tweaking the jokes to make them more accessible but they often seem to go beyond that into what feels like being patronising as though US audiences need a banner appearing saying this is the joke, please laugh.
The other part I find perplexing is the likes of Red Dwarf, Absolutely Fabulous, The Inbetweeners etc. where a fundamental part is the main characters are basically losers but somehow manage to be relatable (maybe it's related to the joke of why there is no British dream like the American dream - because we're awake). Tear that up and make them nice. Why bother remaking it at all then?