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by tremon 72 days ago
You can not know the false negative rate without investigating 100% of all photos. You are asking for the impossible.
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fc417fc802 72 days ago
Sure you can, random sampling should work. Don't just go making things up.

Of course actually carrying out that experiment would be absurd since I don't think anyone expects an appreciable percentage of clearnet material to be CSAM. The working assumption is that the goal is to find a needle in a haystack so GP's objection about needing to know the false negative rate is misguided.

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bluGill 72 days ago
I expect the equivelent of the fbi is investigating this using other sources and so has plenty of data without needing to randomly sample any non-suspect conversation. CASM has been a problem since before computers.
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bluGill 72 days ago
if you want perfection. But the eu should be doing investigation that they can use statistics to create a good estimate.
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