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Perhaps the app itself can use ml to detect flag and prevent known images from being sent...

"Why is Whatsapp using up my phone's battery?"

I'm opposed to this on other grounds, but computing and checking a single hash for each image wouldn't be that big a burden.

Agreed. You mentioned ML though, and that's a different matter.

Checking hashes is definitely viable, but only works for known good examples.