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Doesn't the system eat itself in the end? False flag 10%, remove those users, falsely flag some more, remove them, and so on until all that's left are people who don't use it or just send pictures of their food?


> Doesn't the system eat itself in the end?

Well, it does not as long as the (predictable?) self-censorship sets in. After some time users know not to post pics of vegetable soup if those pics tend to get misclassified.


Depends on the absolute rate of false positives.

I, for example, am currently banned from Reddit, after something like 8 years of usage, due to writing a comment mentioning that Reddit administration was corrupt (how's that for irony? I fear the far-right may have been correct about Reddit administration).

In this case it is not a broken system but an actively malicious one but the point still stands: if it takes 8 years to get falsely banned, they still have plenty of active users at any given time, even high-value ones.


Where will those flagged users go? The point of FAANG is that they are monopolies.


Offline? If the system is as automated and un-appealable as the doom posters are saying, their lives are ruined and they're banned from those platforms forever.




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