Re:Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery
by ASalazarMX on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:04PM
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I hope it's hash-based and not AI. Training that NN would be one of the worst jobs I could imagine, you're adding commercial value to child porn and all the misery it entailed.
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Re:Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery
by pseudalopex on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:23PM
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They trained a neural net to perturb images. Not classify them.[1]
They did add a classifier to iMessage. But it's designed to prevent children seeing any sexually explicit images.[2] There wouldn't be a reason to train it on images of children specifically.
[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-diff...