With its iPhone/iCloud child abuse image scanning system, Apple puts a foot squarely in the content moderation space. Using human reviewers for the images https://t.co/Gye1NHUtoN pic.twitter.com/8KJM8hdPZM
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) August 5, 2021
Wow this is such an incredibly bad idea.
Translation for normals: using terrible AI, when Apple flags a “suspicious” image, a human somewhere is going to be looking at the innocent pictures of your kid splashing around in the bathtub, etc. Or anything! This is going to be nothing but false positives.
I won’t be taking anymore photos with my phone. Note carefully that this is scanning all images on your phone, not just what you upload to iCloud. And if you think it’ll end with that, boy do I have news for you….