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Elsewhere in the thread kevincox[1] points out that it's extremely susceptible to adversarial binaries:

> Worse it seems that for unknown formats it confidently claims that it is one of the known formats. Rather than saying "unknown" or "binary data".

Seems like this is genuinely useless for anybody but AI researchers.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39395677

For the extremely limited number of file types supported, I question the utility of this compared to `magic`

It gets a lot of binary file formats wrong for me out-of-the-box. I think it needs to be a bit more effective before we can truly determine the effectiveness of such exploits.

But they reported >99% accuracy on their cherry-picked dataset! /s

“These aren’t the binaries you are looking for…”