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RE: Cheetah Bot Explained.
Even though I agree to some level of content verification, @heretickitten has a point and it is not answered.
@hoopatang says: "Since the bot is taking no action other than providing information for the readers"...
Providing information is an action. And the very action of informing the user about possible (not certain) plagiarism is conditioning the users to be suspicious.
9 out 10 times, the cheetah-bot will be accurate. What happens to the 1 out of 10?
What is less harmful?
9 guilty men free
or
1 innocent man in jail?
the answer to that depends on the nature of the crime; if the "crime" is for drug use or the failure to pay a fine, it is obvious that Blackstone was right.
If the crime is of a mala in se and ongoing nature that will result in further damage to society, then by utilitarian measure it is better that 1 innocent man be jailed
example; a terror group plots a mass murder spree. if a raid on the group bags 9 terrorists and 1 man who is there by coincidence ( a relative perhaps), the lives saved by the raid are more "valuable" than the one life degraded by loss of freedom.
it would be nice if life were white and black and moral codes were easy to create and abide by.
so in the case of Steemit, you would have to make a judgement on how serious the damage caused by the 9 spammers versus the one innocent poster could be.
someone goes to jail?