• Koa_lala [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Nobody here seems to understand how this works. There is a massive database of cryptographic hashes derived from abuse pictures/videos. These hashes (or codes) can be compared to the ones of the contents on your smartphone.

    Fun fact, we do this on hexbear to purge any unwanted and illegal content.

    • vccx [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      The Verge article also talked about using computer vision on top of the old style hash checks. I remember Apple Photos using local image recognition algorithms on the newer iPhones for the categorizing photos you take, even if you don't upload anything to iCloud