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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Apple killed it’s last version in August because it didn’t respect privacy. Where there’s object detection there’s csam detection. Which hey I think is good, and I wouldn’t expect an announcement about it. I just see how they did this, and this is exactly how I’d roll out a privacy focused csam detector if I was going to do it

From August 2023, they killed the non privacy focused one: wired.com/…/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-l…

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t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Where there’s object detection there’s csam detection.

This is not true at all. A model has to be trained to detect specific things. It does not automatically inherit the ability to detect CSAM just because it can detect other objects. The method it previously used for CSAM image detection was killed for bad privacy implementation, and the article specifically notes that

Tsai argues Apple’s approach is even less private than its abandoned CSAM scanning plan “because it applies to non-iCloud photos and uploads information about all photos, not just ones with suspicious neural hashes.”

So even images that the local detection model doesn’t match to CSAM would be being uploaded to their servers.

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