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heavyset_goyesterday at 2:42 AM1 replyview on HN

You don't have to use ML models for this.


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itakeyesterday at 5:39 AM

Can you elaborate more? Discord has 656m users. if 10% upload their ID, they'd have 65m ID photos to search through. There are 2 use-cases here:

1/ Safety Bans (lets pretend 0.01% of ID card users have been banned for safety reasons: 650k accounts)

If a user submits their selfie/ID card, Discord needs to compare the new image with one of the 650k banned (but deleted?) images. I can't possible think how a human could remember the 650k photos well enough to declare a match.

Even if such a human existed with this perfect recall, there can't be very many of them on this planet to hire.

2/ Duplicate account bans

If a user registers, how can a support staff search the 65m photos without ML assistance to determine if this is a new user or a fraudster?

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