that’s eight years ago

For something like a gamepass it’s debatable.

You probably pay more if using a gamepass, but you also try a lot more games.

If you played as many games without a gamepass as with one, you’d pay a lot more.

But without a gamepass, you usually restrict yourself to fewer games.

Whether removing such restriction is worth the (not as significant) additional cost is subjective.

So there’s an actual case for subscription in cases like this.

(The reason subscriptions make some sense here is because digital items are artificially limited. With physical items or services subscriptions are almost always a money grab. But with artificially limited things, such as digital items, subscriptions can definitely be reasonable.)

Riot Games behaves terribly?

You seem to be missing my point.

This tool would not increase censorship.

Admins are already able to implement all censorship they want.

Admins are already able to block left-wing opinions, right-wing opinions, child porn, normal porn.

And that already happens.

Lots of instances (like feddit.de) block pornographic content.

Lots of instances (like lemmy.blahaj.zone) block right-wing content.

It is already possible, and it is already happening.

An AI which can detect CSAM (and potentially other content) won’t change that. It will simply make the admins’ job easier.

I don’t know how you get the impression that this increases censorship.

Instance admin already manually block content. And they are already able to do that to any extend they wish to do.

This tool would simply automate that process.

Admins would not gain or lose any ability to block content. Identifying child porn would simply be easier.

(Imagine an admin going to their database and doing a CTRL+F with the term “child porn”, and then going through the posts to find offending ones. But instead of CTRL+F it’s an AI.)

(For some reason I don’t get a notification when you answer my comment. Is that a known issue? Did you block me or something?)

That’s not the point. Yes, child porn sites can host child porn. Other sites/instances can’t stop that. But what other instances can stop, is redistributing said child porn. And for that purpose, such technology would be useful.

You moved the period in the wrong direction. It’s 0.034462%.

Governments like the EU do not just regulate to gain power. No need to spread disinformation just so you can be more pessimistic.

I can confidently say that in not a single company project I did frontend development for did I ever leave user input unsanitized.

But I did not ever create a Lemmy like project, that is true.

The reason it’s perceived that way is because code injection in user input, is (one of) the most obvious, well-known, and easiest attacks to do, while at the same time being super easy to prevent.