Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for “inappropriate” content

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• thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yet another reminder that “the cloud” is really just “someone else’s computer”. The end users of cloud based products are controlled by “someone else’s” rules and whims.

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  • techognito@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And by “someone else”, it normally boils down to gigantic corporations that would exploit everything about you to earn money

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• booty@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Guys, settle down. This is a clickbait title, google isn’t “censoring” anything and no part of the content of her silly hockey porn was deemed unacceptable by Google. What happened is that she had a ton of people accessing these documents and Google inaccurately flagged it as her spamming them at people unsolicited. That’s why she was locked from sharing them, because Google assumed it was a bot account doing spam.

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  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For YEARS my google calendar was spammed with "FUCK MY PUSSY @2PM (insert dangerous link here) type shit but like a dozen people reading some amateur smut gets flagged immediately.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How on Earth were people editing your calendar without permission?

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    • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      MAD PUSSY IN BIO FOLLOW ME ON JUSTHVAC.NET

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  • HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    thanks. as a lazy person who just wants content from the forum direct you are my savior.

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  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    thanks for saving me a click.

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• astreus@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Romance” is such a crap term! She was writing porn. Likely with minors. I’m involved with a lot of authors, some also write porn open-door spice, and the only things that get Google bans (from what I’ve been told) are kiddie porn and extreme gore.

  While the dangers of handing your documents to Google can’t be overstated, don’t sympathise too much with this person.

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  • fadedmaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Original Wired article says later in it that Google thought she was spamming. This is relayed through the author though and not Google directly.

    And you’re right. She still had all her work, just couldn’t share it.

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    • astreus@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      "Google never specified which of her 222,000 words was inappropriate. There were no highlighted sections, no indicators of what had rendered her documents unshareable. Had one of her readers flagged the content without discussing it with her first? "

      So much of her work could have broken the T&Cs that she can’t identify what it could be without highlights.

      Original Wired article says later in it that Google thought she was spamming

      Different author, but if that’s the case (and it seems this author shares files to over 80 people in one go) then it’s a spam filter issue? Again, non story.

      The headline is a complete lie.

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  • OrlandoDeCabron@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Brother, people should be allowed to entertain and write down horrific thoughts, especially in a private context, and it not be censored. Policing thought crimes is orders of magnitude more horrific than whatever vile shit someone can put on a page.

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    • astreus@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think we read different articles:

      This person was not allowed to SHARE the things written. That’s not a thought crime.

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You will own nothing and you will be grateful.

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  • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What did she purchase or pay for?

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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think you’re missing the point here, which is that you don’t even own the content you’ve created yourself when you use one of the corporate platforms.

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    • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      she gave google the valuable rights to monitor her activity, in exchange for access to some pretty shitty web services which come with no customer support.

      it was probably a bad deal for her, but there isn’t a lot of competition, there’s a lot of pressure for people to undervalue the rights they’re paying with, and it’s hard to compare how much of those rights are at stake between different companies without the assistance of a lawyer - so it’s understandable that so she and so many people fall for it.

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Google is going puritan now?

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  • HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yeah that was my first thought. you would think it would just get locked into no sharing or something.

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We’re going to end up with a digital world in which corporate AIs are the arbiters of acceptable and nothing will exist without their approval. They have successfully seized control of the internet and even people’s personal devices. It’s terrible.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’ve always been strict at blocking potentially offensive text. Ever kept trying to compose a helpful, constructive YouTube comment reply that doesn’t disappear when you refresh? The AI there is really draconian. Once, someone wanted details of a rather wholesome story I had shared in a top level comment. Replying with the follow-up always failed despite no obvious trigger words. I resorted to editing the parent comment but then struggled to get a “see edit” reply through. At least 10 attempts at expressing “look at the root comment for updates” failed, eventually I managed to get a reply through with nothing but “🔝”. It got removed after I tried to edit it to a clearer expression so I just posted another “🔝” reply and hoped for the best.

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• buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How do you tell people that you are now using shitty AI to evaluate the content of documents on your site without telling people you are using shitty AI to evaluate the content of documents on your site.

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• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They should switch to LibreOffice then, with Syncthing if they need to sync it across multiple computers.

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  • FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    After months and months of hrm-ing and haw-ing I think about to pull the trigger but Is this the right link

    Ik it seems silly but I thought I’d ask

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    • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This link seems to be correct indeed, if anything, their code is on that domain: git.libreoffice.org

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  • squidspinachfootball@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I like this idea, except sometimes I need to access my notes on mobile. Can we open Libre files on mobile? Haven’t tried that.

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    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Collabora office can open open document format files, yes

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• Beaver@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Glad I switched to proton drive.

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• SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Couldn’t she just copy the text to a text file or .odt file and perhaps email it (or better yet, physically copy it with a USB drive) if she can’t direct share it?

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  • cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That might be her working copy. Google docs is fine for text editing. Of course she could work offline or use other platforms, but that’s kinda besides the point of the article.

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• littlebluespark@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not AI? No longer profitable.

  Remind me in five years.

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• PhreakyByNature@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hmm I wonder if my novel started years ago and never finished past the first scene is still on hiveword…

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