Submitted 6 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
Aspiring Author K. Renee was reportedly locked out of her own content on Google Docs after Google flagged it as “inappropriate.”
“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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
How on Earth were people editing your calendar without permission?
MAD PUSSY IN BIO FOLLOW ME ON JUSTHVAC.NET
thanks for saving me a click.
thanks. as a lazy person who just wants content from the forum direct you are my savior.
You will own nothing and you will be grateful.
What did she purchase or pay for?
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.
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.
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.
They should switch to LibreOffice then, with Syncthing if they need to sync it across multiple computers.
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
This link seems to be correct indeed, if anything, their code is on that domain: git.libreoffice.org
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.
Collabora office can open open document format files, yes
Glad I switched to proton drive.
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?
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.
Not AI? No longer profitable.
Remind me in five years.
Hmm I wonder if my novel started years ago and never finished past the first scene is still on hiveword…
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.
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