Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement

Re:Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright... by misnome on Monday January 24, 2022 @01:33PM (#30061851)

All copyright-infringing files are ~50% 1's, therefore there is a 50% chance of every file with a 1 in being copyright-infringing!

Statistics don't lie, which is presumably why google employs so many of them, to calculate these efficiencies.

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Re:Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright... by denton-scratch on Monday January 24, 2022 @02:27PM (#30062635)

> Statistics don't lie

However statistics can be used to confuse.

If a file is 50% 1's, then a 1-digit file has a 50% chance of infringing. More than that, the chance of infringement grows pretty fast.

Also, if "1" is copyright, then a file with a "1" in it is infringing; there's no chance there. It's certainty.

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