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> its got nothing to do with cloud scanning for images

Everyone else are cloud services scanning for images , cloud or on-device wont change the math, math stays same and here the math makes mistake

> A picture of someone’s children wouldn’t trigger these systems at all

The main post under which we are conversing , is about someone having generated a collision to trigger this system.

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I feel we're circling the same issues here so I'll leave it after this. But what you're saying is the point I'm making, many clouds have been doing this for a decade and we've not seen the issues you're worried about. The one example you gave was a photo tech, so human developing photos, making a mistake. Not someone being targeted with material that would trigger google photos or Facebook to flag them, not algorithms making mistakes with photos of someones kids, none of it.

The post we're commenting under has created hash collisions with grey blob images, if you get 100 of these they won't get past the review step anyway. It'd be a pointless attack.

Like most of the outrage around this system it mostly seems to boil down to FUD.

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