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Snapchat is big enough to do it in house without paying Google to donate their data for their NN.

For volume consumers, Google should be paying Snapchat to learn from their data.

They have just committed to spending $1bn on GCP though, so not unrealistic that they'd leverage some of the other suite of tools.

It's actually $2bn [1], $400 million per year over 5 years.

This API is not cheap

How long until someone runs an attack like https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02943 and provides the model for free?

This field moves quickly.

Embedding Watermarks into Deep Neural Networks

Snapchat is required to spend buckets of money with Google...

They're more than likely on this already.

Any photo you save in the app is already categorized by content.