Analysis of effect of EU's Article 13: assuming 1 in 10K items infringe copyright, an algorithm with 99.5% accuracy will falsely censor 50K items in every 10M (Alec Muffett/threadreaderapp.com)

Alec Muffett / threadreaderapp.com:
Analysis of effect of EU's Article 13: assuming 1 in 10K items infringe copyright, an algorithm with 99.5% accuracy will falsely censor 50K items in every 10M  —  Regards #Article13, I wrote up a little command-line false-positive emulator; it tests 10 million events with a test …

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