I want to curate my feed to mostly just contain serious people. Doesn’t matter whether I agree with their views or not - it’s all about how those views are expressed. So many people on social media are just thrilled to have a megaphone and the ability to make noise. I don’t like noise.
For example, right now there are people who opened the thread just because I put “AI” in the title and they can’t wait to share their views about AI in the comments as if it’s meaningfully relevant to what I’m saying. They know what I mean, but you can’t just miss an opportunity to score a few points dunking on AI, can you?
Whatever gene makes people want to shout these thought-terminating clichés, upvote others who do it, and find some sense of belonging from it is clearly missing from me. I’d rather just not even hear about it - it’s extremely exhausting and has never achieved anything worthwhile.
It doesn’t really matter whether most people like the smell of your farts or not - you’re still poisoning the air.
If the tool works by just having a text field where you write the instructions for it, then yeah, it would have the same issues as other LLMs - what you ask for isn’t always what you get. There would definitely need to be some kind of logger so you could review it later and see how it’s actually performing.
You can never get rid of false positives - at least not before we reach AGI - but that doesn’t really matter. I’m already getting a huge number of them relying on keyword filtering and blocking, which are both broad, blunt, and inaccurate tools. It doesn’t need to be perfect - just better. It’s not like I’m going to miss some life-changing information just because it falsely flagged some content. I’m already missing ALL the content on Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. A few Lemmy posts I might’ve potentially found interesting don’t weigh much on that scale.
Here’s a good example of a thread where about 80% of the comments are pure noise. In the ideal case I would open that thread and only see the few civil comments written in good faith with “truth seeking” attitude. The rest of it is just dunking.
As I said, something along these lines should be possible for consumers as well - AI sentiment analysis certainly exists (for example, for social media managers in companies).
However, to my knowledge, such a “content filtering” tool out of the box does not exist, which is likely due to the fact that it would consume a great deal of energy (or tokens in cloud models, which of course also equates to energy), since every single post and comment would have to be evaluated by an LLM - and this would likely apply to every user of such a tool, provided that each user can specify their own criteria for filtering.
A service like this, which could be easily deployed as a kind of SaaS solution without technical knowledge, would therefore have to be a paid service if it were to function effectively for the user.
I don’t think such services exist, though -perhaps for mainstream social media platforms or as browser extensions for some usecases, but likely not outside the mainstream.
You could build something like this yourself, though - using a locally operated model or by utilizing an API. But you’d have to develop it yourself, I’m afraid.