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The apple one was only matching against known images, not trying to detect new ones.

The google one actually does try to detect new ones and there are reported instances of Google sending the police on normal parents for photos they took for the doctor.

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I feel this neatly captures the overarching corporate philosophies and attitudes of Apple and Google in a single example.

Pick your favourite other example of when Apple and Google have faced roughly the same problem as each other, and hold up their respective solutions next to those in the example of CSAM scanning above. I bet they'll look similar.

And it would only notify someone for human review if a certain threshold was reached; just having one or two violating images would have tripped the system.

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