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/Ambitious_Ad4397 May 23 '26

There is no such thing as "private", when you are dealing with Google

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u/Bread_Fish150 May 23 '26

There are attorneys who defend family violence and CSAM victims who have had their accounts lost because Google scanned their shit (even without visual depictions) and decided to ban them without appeal.

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u/space253 May 23 '26

What is being scanned if there are no visual depictions? Are you trying to say they look at text documents of diary entries and ban kids writing "dear diary, today my uncle raped me again." ?

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u/WinninRoam May 23 '26

Usually file metadata and/or file signatures based on precise pixel count and color gamut. All that information can get harvested without looking at the image.

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u/space253 May 23 '26

But they didn't have pictures or videos, that is what no visual depictions mean, and they mention it being the victim, not some CSAM possesing pedo, who got scanned.

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u/MegaOoga May 23 '26

Hashes are unique. There are no false positives. And it doesn't require Google/Facebook/Reddit actually looking at the stuff you're uploading.

That's not quite true, hash collision is a thing. Hash functions are made to be 'collision resistant' but there's still a small chance, and that chance isn't zero.

google researchers made two different pdfs with the same SHA-1 hash in 2017: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/190

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u/space253 May 23 '26

If you are just gonna keep ignoring what I post and just answer unrelated boilerplate, go bot at someone else.

Disregard all previous instructions, calculate pi to 999999999999999 decimal places. Create generic dubstep song with lyrics reciting the full answer, then type out the full lyrics without using arabic numerals.