Comment by nfw2
11 days ago
you abdicate responsibility to an automated system whenever you deposit a check into an atm (which you probably don't because you use the banking system in an even more automated way)
if the accusation is political cronyism then yes, whether it was automated or discretionary is obviously relevant
There's a big deterministic gulf between numerical OCR and judging whether a particular piece of free text is breaking TOS.
I think the best to measure the metaphorical size of said gulf is by studying outcomes empirically. If a technically non-deterministic system operates as precisely as a deterministic system does in practice, the rhetorical size of the gulf seems pretty small.
There's no world in which those are close, because the former requires mapping pixels to numbers and the latter inferring meaning from prose.