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google's AI moderation deleted artist's entire google account for uploading his own old manga to gdrive
(lm.kluge.cafe)
https://xcancel.com/AyakaMods/status/2057438125203296642#m
this needs to stop man
I didn't realize AI was looking at my google drive. I'm just deleted my files, but that's like a huge chunk of my career they could have potentially stolen.
I do still want backups beyond my flashdrive, maybe an encrypted file?
No one should have anything on google specifically, or on a non-privately owned and properly secured server in general.
There was a guy, during covid lockdowns, whose child developed a severe rash in the diaper area.
because lockdowns, the doctor asked them to send photos of the rash so he can diagnose.
googles auto-moderator labeled it child pornography, immediately deleted their account (which was very much all eggs in one basket. his phone number, email, data, everything was tied to his google account, all of which went away with no ability to recover anything on any of it) and called the authorities.
Police came to his home, talked to him, talked to his doctor, said there was nothing untoward there and went about their business.
Google said it didnt matter what the police said, it was child pornpgraphy.
the doctor sent a letter to google saying it was a legitimate medical necessity.
google said it didnt care, its child pornography.
That their expert photo-lookers said there was no rash in the area that they could tell, so there for the doctor was wrong, the police were wrong, and that man was a pedophile and he would never get anything back in any circumstance.
and for proof of that, they pointed to a video in his google data from 6 months prior that had the mother laying in bed, naked, with the baby on her chest.
Because, according to google, the only reason to be naked in the same room as a child, or to take a medically dictated photograph of a childs rash, is if you are a dirty dirty child molesting pedophile sexually exploiting your child.
Which I imagine makes almost all of our parents and grand parents pedophiles, by googles standards, because I guarantee the overwhelming majority of us have a parent that has a picture of us naked, probably in the bath, that is compltely fucking harmless to any sane, normal human being, unlike the actual pedophiles that google has looking at this shit who gets their rocks off to it and assumes everyone else is just as fucked up as twisted as they are.
Reminds me of a joke: someone is driving on a certain road and listening to the radio; suddenly the announcer warns: beware anyone driving in [that particular road], there's a madman driving in the wrong direction. To which the driver exclaims: One!? It's all of them!
Google are that driver in this case. I.e., the real paedophiles. For only a paedophile could consider a picture of a mother with her child child pornography.
Just use a zero-knowledge end-to-end encrypted service. Which means the company literally can't ever read your files!
I use Filen for a long time now, and I'm super satisfied.
Encrypting something with your own key before you upload it is a solution for backups, but you do lose the convenience factor of cloud storage. If you are only using Google Drive for backup, that could work.
The alternative is to use a service with built-in end-to-end encryption.
I'm just using it for backups. I'm not really interested in remote services out side of that - they kinda sounds like a scam.
I don't think they're a scam. They're just more honest: you use x amount of storage, you pay for x amount of storage and you can do with it as you like.
It's not presented as "free" where you actually pay with your data, a dependency on the service and hidden content restrictions.
Was thinking more paid remote services are almost always something that'd be better done locally.
For free remote services, Idk. Maybe. I used to think there should be a public option for most things: email, 5GB storage, radio, social media, etc. Through that lens using free remote services was just settling for the lack of a public option. My experience with lemmy has kinda shifted my views on that. Small lemmy instances are like a person doing a service for their community (which happens to be federated with other communities). When federated the costs are low and these sorts of public-good things really ought be funded by endowments that are easy to build with low costs as the communities slowly grow. I'm not sure how that should work with email or storage or if it's right to expect individuals to associate with one community or another to obtain them -- but,I don't really trust the government or large corporations to handle the public-good responsibly.
Yeah, I just don't know what the right answer is for everything, but I like the individual / non-profit federations model for a lot of small cheap things.
But offsite storage is something that per definition can't be done locally ...