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A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It (www.404media.co)
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[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 17 points 1 day ago

Google’s only failure here was to not unban on his first or second appeal.

My experience of Google and the unban process is: it doesn't exist, never works, doesn't even escalate to a human evaluator in a 3rd world sweatshop - the algorithm simply ignores appeals inscrutably.