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a computer can never be held accountable — therefore a computer must never make a management decision
That's a really fascinating, but horrible, point. Every AI decision becomes a way to shirk responsibility, even more than just automated ones (because then its "your" rule). Welcome to the brave new world of AI-decision laundering.
This happens all the time in Google Play, how do you protect against random take downs? You have several copies of your dev account or channel. That's it, you become a spammer to defend against the bot that "protects" us from spammers.
Don't worry, you can appeal at the GMAFIA robot. Who will instantly deny you.
Once you’re locked out, you’re fucked. Meta doesn’t give a shit about its users, that’s the only way this business model can work.
Now for me, I try to use Meta products as little as possible. But my partner gets a significant amount of business leads from Instagram, it’s quite lucrative for her, so she took quite a hit when she lost that account and had to start over.
a computer can never be held accountable — therefore a computer must never make a management decision
Unless of course you don’t care about accountability. This gives google a lot of “oops, the system did it” leeway.
Other than that, this is probably because the content owner has a product called "Switch", and they are not as big and mighty as Nintendo. Makes me think that if you are creating a brand or product name, better use a made-up word
Don't worry, you can appeal at the GMAFIA robot. Who will instantly deny you.
a computer can never be held accountable — therefore a computer must never make a management decision
Sadly the original source was lost in a flood and IBM archives do not have a copy: https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1798170111058264280
Edit: here's a better link https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a-computer-can-never-be...