Algospeak refers to code words or turns of phrase users have adopted in an effort to create a brand-safe lexicon that will avoid getting their posts removed or down-ranked by content moderation systems. For instance, in many online videos, it's common to say "unalive" rather than "dead," "SA" instead of "sexual assault," or "spicy eggplant" instead of "vibrator." [...]
Sex workers, who have long been censored by moderation systems, refer to themselves on TikTok as "accountants" and use the corn emoji as a substitute for the word "porn." [...] More recently, users on TikTok have started to say "cornucopia" rather than "homophobia," or say they're members of the "leg booty" community to signify that they're LGBTQ. [...] "You have to say 'saltines' when you're literally talking about crackers now," [...]
TikTok users now use the phrase "le dollar bean" instead of "lesbian" because it's the way TikTok's text-to-speech feature pronounces "Le$bian," a censored way of writing "lesbian" that users believe will evade content moderation.
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Didn't we used to call that "slang"?
No. Countermeasures designed specifically to get around filters are not what we used to call "slang".
One could argue that Cockney rhyming slang was designed for this purpose.
Or perhaps one is just being difficult.
No, it's a good comparison, but Polari is better, as Polari was meant to avoid prosecution at the hands of homophobic governments.
Of course the "big igloo" dialect of algospeak is another issue entirely.
It’s more like a shibboleth than slang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
Hmm - maybe the same can be applied to audio clips to stop them being DMCA'd. Insert detection-breaking noise every x seconds, maybe even something as simple as pitch-shifting or tempo-changing the track?
So... the "safe word" scanning algorithms are essentially training humans to avoid triggering them...
This timeline sucks.