# Content Moderation by ponbiki - 03/16/23 @ 09:25 PM CET
As I'm sure many of you are aware of, the economy has taken a bit of a downturn for a while now. Unfortunately, 7chan has not been immune to the effects of this economic pinch either. Our inability to secure further venture backed capital combined with diminishing advertising revenue rates have left us unable to continue paying the salaries and benefits for our staff. We were sadly forced to make the tough decision to let most of our moderating staff go last week. As a measure to help mitigate the loss of our valued moderators, we have created some tooling to leverage ChatGPT as a form of post vetting and moderation. Currently, this new AI assisted moderation process is only being used on /b/ while we sort through some of the expected bugs, however we hope to roll this system out site-wide by the end of April. We appreciate your patience, and we wish the best of luck to our former moderators in all their future endeavors.
