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Comment by ethbr1

10 days ago

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.