Don't only names, addresses, email addresses, account/phone numbers, and illustrations need to be redacted? Couldn't an LLM do at least most of that fast and cheap?
LLMs are suitable for tasks where it’s cheap to validate the result or the cost of being wrong is low. This is basically the opposite of that: if you fail to redact things, the costs can be high and since these are documents written by humans you need intelligence to handle indirect or obscure language or you’re risking missing a redaction because clues which don’t easily identify someone can be combined to do so. A million dollars is likely to be considerably cheaper than the legal costs of getting it wrong.
Does it matter? Anyone who sees that their favorite politician was part of Epstein’s circle, will simply ignore it. They’ll forget it happened and dismiss it when it is brought up. If their disliked politicians show up in there though, they’re going to not stop talking about it.
I disagree mostly because it doesn’t matter anymore. a video can come out of _____ doing the most heinous things on monday, by wednesday we’ll be talking about bombing boats and giving peace prizes to mass murderers :)
Incrementally and unevenly. The catholic church abuse scandal took decades of persistence before change. Tobacco litigation seemed pointless until it wasn't. Epstein was a known criminal for years before arrest. The gap is long and uncertain, but the alternative is what? You keep your own house in order regardless of whether the neighborhood is on fire. That is the only part you can control
