I know this is avoidable, and I know it’s a semi-regular occurrence, and I can recognize Google’s moderation problem is non-trivial, but I really can’t shake the feeling that Orwell was off by a letter and the future will truly just be a bot stamping on a human face forever.
Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity
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#12> The added grievance to this is that my drive also included my own personal family photos and my current book on the subject I mean, how many times does this need to come up for people to learn the lesson? If you are storing your data with a third party, and you do not have an iron legal contract with this third party, then that third party can and will do whatever it wants with your data, including locking you out…
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#13Encrypt everything before uploading.
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#14Anyway, Google will never ever comment on the reason for account disabled in public, therefore whining about it in public is not going to work. The way to get accounts enabled is https://support.google.com/accounts/contact/disabled2
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#15I will upvote and comment to hopefully gain visibility at the minimum. Google really has an unfortunate customer support set up, in that there isn't one. Your best bet when Google does something bad to their customers like this (And regardless if its a bad AI or bad bot, its still Google doing it), is to post it on twitter or hackernews and hope it gets the visibility for a Google employee to fix it, or contact someo…
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#19I will upvote and comment to hopefully gain visibility at the minimum. Google really has an unfortunate customer support set up, in that there isn't one. Your best bet when Google does something bad to their customers like this (And regardless if its a bad AI or bad bot, its still Google doing it), is to post it on twitter or hackernews and hope it gets the visibility for a Google employee to fix it, or contact someo…
Google One, and Google Workspaces both offer paid support plans that cover Google Drive.
$2/mo or $20/yr
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#20As a person who formerly worked on the technical side of anti-abuse (both content and account) at Google, I urge you to read these kinds of reports critically. There is no reason to believe any of the details given in the post, which incorporates a lot of supposition about how this system works. For example, we have no rational basis for believing that this was done by some robot at Google. It is at least as likely t…
>Anyway, Google will never ever comment on the reason for account disabled in public, therefore whining about it in public is not going to work. The way to get accounts enabled is https://support.google.com/accounts/contact/disabled2
No, Google has proven itself to be a pretty awful enterprise and deserves no benefit of doubt.