[stetrain]

This system does not use ML to find new CSAM images. It only checks for ones already in a known database. Your pictures of kids in the bathtub are not on the list.

What is show to the reviewer is a "visual derivative" which hasn't been clearly defined. A thumbnail image? Something with a censored section? We don't really know.

[short_sells_poo]

Yes I'm aware that it checks against a known database but clearly there can be collisions. So eventually it will share someone's private images.

[bengale]

It would need to have 30 collisions before anything even took place, which realistically isn't going to happen.

[brokenmachine]

Most cameras nowadays can easily take a burst of 30 visually very similar images in a second.

Lots of people leave their cameras in burst mode.

[robertoandred]

Or rather, it will share some gray blob apparently.

[short_sells_poo]

What is the point of sharing a gray blob? How is that going to prove anything?

[stetrain]

I think the gray blob refers to engineered hash collisions, like the example in the article link.