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Welcome to the life of powerless serfdom on digital marketplaces. Similar things can easily happen to you on the app stores, ad sales accounts etc.

When people depend on these platforms for their livelihood and they have no real competitors there has to be some transparency and due process. Regulation is the only way.

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Now imagine people want to replace developers with AI, not only we won’t have control over those problems but even worse the code behind it as well if no one reads back millions of lines of code to identify problems in rules (which already seems to be the case here). What a nightmare

Agreed - but on the other hand (no flippancy intended) it's not hard to imagine AI would have done a better job in this instance.

You have a point, the problem is that AI might be better in some instances but in other instances for example insurance, banking, medical, in more critical cases, having an opaque system with wrong and rigid rules is worst than a nightmare. But everyone will jump on the bandwagon, not only the less problematic cases (I thing we agree that not buying a book might be considered less important than not receiving medical care) but everyone. In somes instances if AI does a worst job the consequences on human life might be terrible

> ... the problem is that AI might be better in some instances ...

It's not good for anything. Every time you spot how useless it is for a specific task, the AI fans say you are using it wrong and for the wrong purpose, and please give it more data and time to get better. It's garbage and the VC money is running out. It'll become a forgotten acronym soon.

Please give it more time. It will get better.

I'd wager they are using AI to ban books, so no, AI will not do a better job.

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