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yes, i agree. i don't think anyone should be banned off the back of an ai ruling; at most it should just immediately flag the admin team who could then review and ban. but i don't think it's too arduous to just have to upload to imgur or catbox instead. especially if the alternative is paying a team to do it manually, or shutting down
maybe i'm just old enough that externally hosting images on fora is the standard, and locally hosting is a newfangled feature that costs the site money; though. that's one of the reasons i like lemm.ee; and i've only used the local image feature once or twice apart from icons and banners
yes, this is really annoying.. but (and i don't know) it's possible that the cost of hosting images is what shuts these sites down. so you have the option of a forum with no images, or no forum at all. that's just conjecture though, i don't know
also, this bit isn't even true for the fediverse. if an instance (say, lemmy.world) goes down, a link like
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/168a4571-489d-46d8-b1d2-48acb6a3d1c2.png
will be dead even though the thread, community, and lemmy as a whole are still up[^1]you could have a prompt saying: "Your post may have been detected as CSAM. You may post it using an external image host, or appeal and wait for an admin to adjudicate"; thus informing people of their options
but the point is: without using ai, you have the option of: 1) no uploading of images at all, 2) relying on user reports (too slow and unreliable for illegal content), 3) no image uploads at all. now whilst i personally am a fan of the latter, i think it's objectively worse for the majority of people
basically; if there aren't enough admins to do this with ai; there definitely aren't enough admins to do it without ai
you could get around this bit specifically by actually posting the post when it gets approved, from a backend point of view
[^1]: see: the whole lemmy.fmhy.ml fiasco