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It's interesting that so much of their letter is basically them saying "we can't automate enforcement of our rules", yet that hasn't stopped them doing that up
by daveoc64 3y ago
It's interesting that so much of their letter is basically them saying "we can't automate enforcement of our rules", yet that hasn't stopped them doing that up until now on platforms like Google Play and YouTube (with obvious terrible results).
- smoldesu 3y agoMaybe we should take their word for it, then? It's hard to imagine what enforcement even looks like, at their scale.
- edgyquant 3y agoThen they’re operating at too high a scale
- Arnt 3y agoMost people find it hard to imagine what my work even looks like (I'm a software developer, approximately). Then I'm operating at... [complete the sentence]. Or if you don't want to complete the sentence, you may instead explain why abuse handling at scale is something people should understand while the 120-frame stack trace involved in my current task is too complex/difficult/whatever.
- theptip 3y agoIt’s not cheaper for smaller companies to do this kind of moderation. If it’s too expensive even with Google’s economy of scale, then it’s going to be even worse for small businesses.
- dmcq2 3y agoHow many people do you think they should employ at the job? Ten years ago China was already employing two million people to monitor the internet. Google and others employ tens of thousands of people round the world to monitor pictures or videos that their AIs flag, and it is a nasty job with a lot of burnout. Scale makes the job easier if anything.
- j16sdiz 3y agoEmploying 2 million people is (relatively) easy. Train them for all applicable law in the world is hard.
- yibg 3y agoThat’s the scale of the internet though. It’s either google or 1000 smaller googles. The amount of work required doesn’t change.
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- Arnt 3y agoI don't find it interesting — it's just another way to say that you can do lots more things if you're not legally responsible for the quality of your work.
- tapoxi 3y agoI mean they were sued by Viacom for a billion dollars. Google didn't put ContentID in for fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._YouTube,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._Y....