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443: A Storm of Asterisks

Accidental Tech Podcast

Is This the Same Picture as the Other Picture?

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The threshold is designed to provide an extremely high level of accuracy and ensures that less than one in one trillion chance per year of incorrectly flagging a given account. Apple has no idea what the threshold is, but by putting the threshold like this, hopefully they can avoid any false positives. And also pretty much catch everybody who's doing this. But if the threshold is 10 or 20 million photos, maybe this is not a great feature. Like, I don't know if you call it machine learning, but some amount of processing that is done to try to determine if this picture is the quote unquote same picture is that one.

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