LogFAQs > #956857431

thedicemaster posted...

AI isn't involved.
they don't detect new images.

your phone gets a list of "fingerprints" of confirmed bad images, and it makes a list of "fingerprints" of your images.
it then compares these lists to see if there are any matches.

your own pictures will never get flagged unless someone already got arrested with those pictures in their possession.

in your example "Sally" wouldn't get flagged unless "loli lover" got himself arrested and they found her photos on his phone or pc, and added those photos to the list.

although I'm wondering, maybe this could become a new method for "swatting".
hackers secretly sending people images that were doctored to match the fingerprint of images from the list.

That sounds even worse since it sounds like it won't catch any 'new' stuff and only stuff they already know about. I already don't trust identification software because people will post images of rocks that, somehow, trip just the right flags to get flagged as potential porn. That's not to mention it's only a matter of time before someone discovers it doesn't work properly on some racial group for whatever reason. It's just a bad deal through and through and through.

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