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Re:Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery by fallingknife on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:48PM (#28077099)
I have a hard time believing that this algorithm will be able to resist simple image manipulations while still being sensitive enough to avoid false positives.
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Re:Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery by diebeforei485 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:04PM (#28077319)
I have similar qualms with this, because this is increasing the number of photos scanned by 2-3 orders of magnitude, and the number of false positives presumably also increases correspondingly.
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Re:Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery by midev on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:55PM (#28077191)
What algorithm are they using?
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Re:Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery by fallingknife on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:57PM (#28077230)
I don't know. If they made that public it would be completely ineffective.
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