Is Apple's New AI Spying On You?
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In the last couple days some information has come out regarding a new machine learning tool that might be embedded soon on Apple devices. This tool can be us...

I used to think that even though Apple's bad, at least they're okay on the privacy front. But what the fuck?

They wanna be able to detect every image I take for the possibility of it being "illegal"? Fuck you.

Is Ubuntu good? And LineageOS for phone?

Edit - At least r/apple seems to be against it If there's one positive thing I can say about reddit, it's that those nerds are usually all in on privacy stuff.

  • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I'm not sure what you mean by this, but they definitely are using hashes to detect illegal images:

    the system performs on-device matching using a database of known CSAM image hashes provided by NCMEC and other child safety organizations

    • comi [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I thought they hashed result of some pattern network, to avoid pixel changing behaviour of straight hashes?

      • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Ah yes, in the technical summary it details their hashing algorithm; it takes some digging to actually find that, I note. I admit to being dubious that their NeuralHash algorithm is really as bulletproof as they seem to be saying it is; neural nets are, in my view, a shitty foundation for any algorithm.

        So, on the one hand, this wipes out point 2 (as OP already mentioned), but on the other, anyone with a very large photo collection on iCloud is at real risk of having their images viewed by random Apple employees, which is pretty gross. (I was wondering why they would need a threshold rather than just booting someone for any such image.)