Comment on Take It Down Act Has Best Of Intentions, Worst Of Mechanisms

• vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  because of the “perceptual” part.

  A normal hash has the property that it produces wildly different hashes for even the tiniest of changes in the file.

  Perceptual hashing flips that requirement on its head, and therefore makes finding a suitable hash function much harder.

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh, the way I read it it seemed like they were saying perceptual hashes used to be easier to calculate

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