Aspiring Author K. Renee was reportedly locked out of her own content on Google Docs after Google flagged it as “inappropriate.”
Yet another reminder that “the cloud” is really just “someone else’s computer”. The end users of cloud based products are controlled by “someone else’s” rules and whims.
And by “someone else”, it normally boils down to gigantic corporations that would exploit everything about you to earn money
You will own nothing and you will be grateful.
What did she purchase or pay for?
I think you’re missing the point here, which is that you don’t even own the content you’ve created yourself when you use one of the corporate platforms.
In what way has Google taken ownership rights?
Google has restricted what people can do with their content, i.e. their ownership rights.
That’s not how that works, and if you can point out what law says that speech may be posted on any platform regardless of terms of service I’d love to see that. Is it your position that if Twitter or a lemmy mod blocks content that this is an infringement of my rights?
No, my position is that you shouldn’t use these platforms or at least not make yourself dependent on them.
Then you should have stated that rather than your inaccurate and off topic comment. I didn’t even disagree that free Google is a stupid platform to use as a professional.
Google is forbidding the author from the right to make copies of their own work (aka copy-right)
No they aren’t. They have access, they can copy into whatever they desire.
Google is going puritan now? It’s a lot more concerning to me that companies are scanning all of your personal documents than the fact that someone wrote some potential indecent content.
They’ve always been strict at blocking potentially offensive text. Ever kept trying to compose a helpful, constructive YouTube comment reply that doesn’t disappear when you refresh? The AI there is really draconian. Once, someone wanted details of a rather wholesome story I had shared in a top level comment. Replying with the follow-up always failed despite no obvious trigger words. I resorted to editing the parent comment but then struggled to get a “see edit” reply through. At least 10 attempts at expressing “look at the root comment for updates” failed, eventually I managed to get a reply through with nothing but “🔝”. It got removed after I tried to edit it to a clearer expression so I just posted another “🔝” reply and hoped for the best.
They should switch to LibreOffice then, with Syncthing if they need to sync it across multiple computers.
After months and months of hrm-ing and haw-ing I think about to pull the trigger but Is this the right link
Ik it seems silly but I thought I’d ask
I like this idea, except sometimes I need to access my notes on mobile. Can we open Libre files on mobile? Haven’t tried that.
Collabora office can open open document format files, yes
How do you tell people that you are now using shitty AI to evaluate the content of documents on your site without telling people you are using shitty AI to evaluate the content of documents on your site.
Couldn’t she just copy the text to a text file or .odt file and perhaps email it (or better yet, physically copy it with a USB drive) if she can’t direct share it?
That might be her working copy. Google docs is fine for text editing. Of course she could work offline or use other platforms, but that’s kinda besides the point of the article.
Hmm I wonder if my novel started years ago and never finished past the first scene is still on hiveword…
Not AI? No longer profitable.
Remind me in five years.
