alt Hacker NewsThe proposed CSAM scanning used perceptual hashing to try to identify CSAM material known to law enforcement.
It was not a tool to identify private images as being underage. That’s an impossible task.
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trollbridge • today at 3:53 PM
I'd say modern AI tools could probably do this pretty effectively. They're very effective at describing anything else about an image. I have a workflow that churns through large amounts of images, describes them, and then looks for things I specifically want (in my case, auction listings that are not described accurately on the auction website).
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It's impossible to do with perfect accuracy, but that doesn't mean it isn't done.
Just ask the dad who was investigated for taking pictures of his toddler for the doctor: https://www.koffellaw.com/blog/google-ai-technology-flags-da...