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So in a just world, google would be heavily penalized for not only allowing csam on their servers, but also for violating their own tos with a customer?
This, literally the only reason I could guess is that it is to teach AI to recognise childporn, but if that is the case, why is google going it instead of like, the FBI?
Google isn't the only service checking for csam. Microsoft (and other file hosting services, likely) also have methods to do this. This doesn't mean they also host csam to detect it. I believe their checks use hash values to determine if a picture is already clocked as being in that category.
This has existed since 2009 and provides good insight on the topic, used for detecting all sorts of bad category images:
https://technologycoalition.org/news/the-tech-coalition-empowers-industry-to-combat-online-child-sexual-abuse-with-expanded-photodna-licensing/