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<section>All this makes me feel happy for having come as far as I have with this project.
https://bsky.app/profile/green-lion-art.bsky.social/post/3mproldx7bk2l<span class="post-quote">
>discord is apparently instantly perma-banning people who post images of grids.</span><span class="post-quote">
>its moderation AI thinks that a grid, whether that be a pixelated texture from a video game, a screenshot of folders in a file explorer, a chess board, etc, is illegal and illicit material. #discord_grid_ban</span>
https://bsky.app/profile/cosettetape.bsky.social/post/3mpq2oojjyc2i<span class="post-quote">
>DO NOT SEND IMAGES IN DISCORD DMS</span><span class="post-quote">
>I WAS JUST BANNED FOR CHILD SAFETY FOR SENDING AN IMAGE OF A WORK SCHEDULE</span><span class="post-quote">
>IM GOING TO HAVE TO FIGHT THIS FOR WEEKS NOW</span><span class="post-quote">
>FUCK MY LIFE </span><span class="post-quote">
>IT ALWAYS GETS WORSE</span><span class="post-quote">
>IT WILL ALWAYS GET WORSE</span><span class="post-quote">
>NOTHING IS EVER BETTER</span>
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1umdc67/whats_going_on_with_people_being_banned_for/<span class="post-quote">
>Answer: It appears that Discord have been attempting to fight the rampant CSAM proliferation issues they've been experiencing in part by using AI image recognition trained on common CSAM images.</span><span class="post-quote">
>Many of those images attempted to bypass earlier filters by overlaying a grid pattern on top of the image that would fool a computer but still allow humans to understand the nature and details of the image.</span><span class="post-quote">
>As a result, many non-CSAM images with a grid pattern (screen shots of Google Drive file lists, chess boards, tables of data, etc) are being flagged as CSAM and result in the user posting it being permabanned.</span></section>
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<section><span class="post-quote">>My man, there are dozens of sites, like disboard, that promote servers that explicitly sell CSAM, promote children selling themselves, etc etc.</span><span class="post-quote">
>If this measure takes some of those down, I'm fine with it, even if it catches a few strays</span>
Regardless of whether one is personally fine with this exact means or not...
I am all the way over here so I won't get hit by any strays at all, and whoever else is registered on here is also fortunate in that regard.</section>
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<section>https://nitter.net/discord_support/status/2074282860123767135
Discord's made some official replies on the matter.
I'll compile the posts in here.
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This weekend, our safety systems incorrectly triggered and banned around 200 accounts. Everyone affected has been reinstated.
Here's what happened. A thread
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Our systems flag content by matching it against known harmful material. This kind of similarity matching can produce false positives, which is why a member of our Trust & Safety team always reviews flagged content before any action is taken.
The intended behavior is to temporarily pause uploads during that review, not ban the account.
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We had a bug that caused the latter. When our staff reviewed and cleared those accounts, the same bug prevented the ban from being lifted automatically, so it just stayed in place.
Around 8,200 accounts were affected from May 2026 through last week, plus the 200 more this past weekend. We've unbanned everyone affected by this bug.
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We know that's not a satisfying explanation if this was your account, and we should have caught this sooner. We're working on better safeguards so this can't quietly happen again, and more broadly, on making sure our safety systems don't penalize people who did nothing wrong.
If something still feels off with your account, reply here.
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