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   Dan Gillmor (dangillmor@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Dec-2025 14:40:39 JST Dan Gillmor

   “I understand I’m just an independent developer—the kind of person Google doesn’t care about" -- developer whose accounts were wiped by Google for what the company later, but only after being contacted by a journalist, admitted was an unfounded, machine-decided "violation".

   https://www.404media.co/a-developer-accidentally-found-csam-in-ai-data-google-banned-him-for-it/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=6939854c7ce61e0001620dc5&attribution_type=post

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 11-Dec-2025 14:40:39 JST Rich Felker

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     @dangillmor Sounds like Google did exactly the right thing. Everyone in possession of these "AI training data sets" containing CSAM should be locked up. Fuck around and find out, AI bros.