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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shouldn't it be possible to create open-source bots that use the same databases as the researchers to automatically flag and block that kind of content?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Those databases are highly regulated, as they are, themselves CSAM

Apple tried to do fuzzy hashes to download them to devices, and it wasn’t able to reliably identify things at all