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by doublepg23·7y ago·view on hn ↗
It's amazing how poor the filtering is. There are plenty of developer horror stories of legitimate apps being taken down by some broken, automated process - sometimes taking peoples' entire Google accounts with them. Then you're stuck dealing with more automated systems for support.

Of course these garbage apps make it through somehow. My favorite is an SNES emulator that's full of ROMs. Clearly a copyright violation, but somehow made it through state-of-the-art AI...

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My favorite is an SNES emulator that's full of ROMs. Clearly a copyright violation, but somehow made it through state-of-the-art AI

I'd actually be fine with it letting stuff like that through, but filter out actual malicious to the user apps.

Which shows badly machine learning works compared to all the promises made by big companies. Google can't identify fraudulent apps, amazon apparently has a big problem with false positives regarding reviews (deleting real 5* reviews while keeping fake ones), YouTube thinks a church fire is a 9/11 conspiracy theory, etc.