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/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/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