You cannot photocopy a dollar bill. Kinda makes sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
Now imagine a "live" neural network running on your phone or camera that prevents you from taking pictures of the Eiffel Tower at night due to "Suspected Copyright Abuse".
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/photographs-of-eiffel-towe...
Next imagine that a local government issues a digital "All Points Bulletin" which scans all pictures on all phones for a "person of interest in a crime (against the state)", conveniently associated with the emergency alert broadcast network.
First they came: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Maybe I can make it clearer.
It is like you are asked or demanded to install some antivirus on your computer, but this is not a typical antivirus , it is not scanning to protect you but to find evidence against you and destroy your life.
A list of facts, let me know if you disagree with the reality or my conclussion
Apple could have scanned iCloud already, why did they not do it so far? Either there is a super low number of CP on iCloud which implies this feature is not needed OR Apple was lazy, incompetent or had some other reason and let a lot of bad guys escape . I would conclude from this that Apple , if they really care of children, should freaking start scanning the existing iCloud images now.
From the above I am inclined to believe that this is not an action to protect the children, the reality does not fit, if there is so much CP on iCloud but Apple just woke up then WTF is that all PR about protecting children.
And for all we know it may have already happened and someone is currently rotting in jail who shouldn't be there.
Middle aged dude raided by cops who find CSAM on their cloud accounts, claims that his phone got hacked. Lying sack of shit pedo, of course he'd say that, right?