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lordnacho on Aug 6, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Problem with Perceptual Hashes

Why wouldn't the algo check that one image has a face while the other doesn't? That would remove this particular false positive, though I'm not sure what it might cause of new ones.

PUSH_AX on Aug 6, 2021 [–]

Because where do you draw the line with classifying arbitrary features in the images? The concept is it should work with an image of anything.

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