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Re:Discord banned 8k users for posting benign grid images by Ravi4649 on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @03:25PM (#48822485)
Imagine you suddenly getting banned after posting a picture of a chessboard
Re:Discord banned 8k users for posting benign grid images by DonHopkins on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @04:42PM (#48823464)
Re:Discord banned 8k users for posting benign grid images by nitwit005 on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @09:41PM (#48826438)
It's an old problem: https://gizmodo.com/british-cops-want-to-use-ai-to-spot-porn...

I've been fairly convinced a lot of social media bans, where people are genuinely confused about the bans, are just automatic moderation problems.

Re:Discord banned 8k users for posting benign grid images by Hugsbox on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @09:48AM (#48831945)
It's for detecting porn? I genuinely don't get it. I regularly post actual nudes on discord and never so much as a warning, crazy that a chessboard or grids are doing it. I wonder what makes an algorithm view a grid pattern as pornographic.
Re:Discord banned 8k users for posting benign grid images by wmf on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @02:45PM (#48835780)
Somebody said people were posting images of QR codes that contained (links to?) CSAM. But instead of using a QR code decoder, it sounds like Discord used perceptual hashing or AI to detect and ban all QR-like images.
Re:Discord banned 8k users for posting benign grid images by Hugsbox on Thursday July 09, 2026 @05:50AM (#48843371)
Ohhh that makes a lot more sense. Well, their implementation doesn't, but it makes sense that grids were mistaken for QR codes.