Post #2725808
2025-02-08 19:21 UTC
@AnachronistJohn@zia.io @hipsterelectron@circumstances.run @jonny@neuromatch.social @nullagent@partyon.xyz We're pointing out neither this app or Google Messages is using it to report something. It's also not scanning for illegal content. Apps also don't need this app to use local ML models. It only provides certain already made models. Apps have always been able to run local classifiers and can use hardware acceleration for it, which has been there for many years. It's not something which just showed up recently with the recent AI craze.
Replies (1)
-
@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social 2025-02-08 19:23
@AnachronistJohn@zia.io @hipsterelectron@circumstances.run @jonny@neuromatch.social @nullagent@partyon.xyz People are using the term client side scanning to refer to doing content scanning for a service on the client side and reporting to the service. That's not what this is doing. This also doesn't somehow enable that in a way that wasn't already doable by any apps wanting to do it. It's a specific implementation of detecting certain kinds of content used by Google Messages for local warnings and blurring with a dialog to bypass it.