Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'
by spiderice on Friday August 13, 2021 @05:38PM
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> How can you figure out what a neural net is trained to find
See, it's comments like this that clearly illustrate that there is confusion, and many people are still outraged over things they don't understand. A neural net is not scanning your phone for CP. You are conflating two things. Just watch the video that you're commenting on before commenting on it.
Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'
by tehnub on Friday August 13, 2021 @05:39PM
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The neural net isn't exactly searching for CSAM itself. Its role is to extract perceptual features from the image, and it is applied to both the CSAM images and your iCloud images. If those were the same to start with, then the extracted features will be the same.
As for exactly how they'll do the auditing, I'm confused as well.
Also now that this is a thing how effective will it be at all? Or these sick people that dumb? After all this news? I do hope they are that dumb but who knows.