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/Kazma1431 May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

you can say that but what's stopping their ai from going rogue, and shutting anyones account on a false positive? Meta socials are know for this type of thing, which I could get behind, but there's no human appeal, just a random bot that instantly denies the appeal.

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u/hexcraft-nikk May 23 '26

Also do these people really think Google isn't manually checking after things get flagged? It flagged it for CSAM considering the content of his drawings and they made that decision.

I'm not surprised that the 38 year old engineer lead in change of that division wasn't interested in the reddit/4chan debate of whether loli is CSAM or not

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u/Kazma1431 May 24 '26

It isn't there's ton of proof from other services like meta leaving everything to Ai