Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads

Re:Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads by Nasrudith on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @08:48AM (#22356008)

Stop looking for a neck to wring for a minute and think about the problem. Manual filtering is just plain not viable period. Spam is very different from arbitrary image formats and potential text analysis across language. Nobody really wants ads so spam filter feedback mechanisms of "everyone says to stop sending me this shit" are fundamentally incompatible.

Think about it would take to detect it algorithmically. Even if an image is copyrighted there is no mechanism to tell if the source actually has permission from it especially with the "born copyrighted" doctrine. Even if there was some vast self defeating registered copyrighted images database (containing images of everything copyrighted) it woukd be possible to distort images to be human recognizible but not machine recognized.

The "alternatives" of demanded manual ad control would mean massively disadvantaging smaller business by marginal costs. Oops.

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Re:Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads by kabes on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @01:15PM (#22358522)

You really think google doesn't have the capability to create a system to detect these ads? This is Google's core business and they do far more impressive stuff in the AI field. I'm not talking about a 100% bulletproof all-copyright-in-the-world solution. If it would be able to detect logo's from the top 1000 brands and some OCR would already go a very long way. Sure ads would try to outsmart it, just like spam it would be a cat-and-mouse game.

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