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If Australia and Apple's CSAM programme are any indication, we are moving to a new era of mass surveillance enabled by ML.
by PartiallyTyped 5y ago
If Australia and Apple's CSAM programme are any indication, we are moving to a new era of mass surveillance enabled by ML.
- Ekaros 5y agoThat sounds absolutely scary... ML with thing we haven't used properly with humans in loop. So we don't even have proper good data for it...
- PartiallyTyped 5y agoThat's a significantly naive view of things that stays on first step and utterly ignores implications and possible subsequent steps. Given enough compute, CSAM detection can become part of the display pipeline, whereby the display is checked, in realtime, against some set of known "hashes", effectively providing a limited form of real time tracking of observed behaviour. The fact that it exists, indicates that governments may use it to circumvent E2EE, or as I mention above, achieve so much more. Apple has been known to cave in to China and other countries. If Apple does it, then odds are everyone will follow suite due to external pressures. This has _always_ been the case.