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by short_sells_poo 1766 days ago
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.
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It would need to have 30 collisions before anything even took place, which realistically isn't going to happen.
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.

Or rather, it will share some gray blob apparently.
What is the point of sharing a gray blob? How is that going to prove anything?
I think the gray blob refers to engineered hash collisions, like the example in the article link.