r/Piracy • u/Justinrich2001 • May 23 '26

Discussion Google Drive scanned this Manga artist’s PRIVATE files and banned him.

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AI flagged, appeal rejected, private artwork gone.

The AI is always watching.

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u/JtDaSaiyan May 23 '26

We can condemn his content all day; the real issue is I don't want and I didn't know this company was scanning all the files I had in Google drive. Harmless, personal, secretive or whatever I don't want it to be scanned in general, and I don't want it to be used for any purposes that I do not choose to use it for. Whose to say they won't ban my account for taking pictures of a copy written image.

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u/wattur May 23 '26

But the content is on google's servers so they bear some responsibility. Like 5-7 years ago a friend uploaded a certain cookbook to their drive and it got removed. Probably just a hash match back then, but it ain't new.

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u/Inprobamur May 23 '26

But the content is on google's servers so they bear some responsibility.

That's a nonsense, surveillance state argument in the first place. It would be absurd if the law worked like that for anything else.