My impression was Google had been doing it for ages. Ex. This article from 2013 where they talk about searching for [my photos of flowers] https://search.goog

My impression was Google had been doing it for ages. Ex. This article from 2013 where they talk about searching for [my photos of flowers] https://search.googleblog.com/2013/05/finding-your-photos-more-easily-with.html https://search.googleblog.com/2013/05/finding-your-photos-mo... I'm an iOS guy, and don't have an Android device to confirm it. I've got a few photos visible on photos.google.com and they're able to detect "beard", at least. Which, to be fair, it's just a few selfies. iOS does this pretty well. I searched my phone and it was able to recognize and classify a gun as a revolver from a meme I'd saved years ago. That's not this CSAM technology, just something they've been doing for years with ML.