Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ Baby Will Likely Never Be Flagged By Apple’s CSAM Scanners
Screenshot via Apple Music
Two stories have made headlines of late: the news about Apple scanning devices for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and the baby in Nirvana’s iconic Nevermind album cover suing the band for child sexual exploitation. Weirdly, they overlap.
If you’re wondering if Apple might flag you for keeping the album art in your camera roll, or even for purchasing the album on Apple Music, AppleInsider reassures that it’s not plausible, even if the baby—now a 30-year-old—wins his case against Nirvana.
That’s partly because non-sexualized nude photos of infants do not fall under CSAM. Imagine all the new parents of the world getting in trouble after having just had a baby and then feverishly taking photos.
The tech giant also explained earlier that it relies on more than one database—controlled by different governments—to identify abusive images. Photos only become red flags when they trigger intersecting hashes of two or more databases.
Furthermore, images deemed as artistic portrayals wouldn’t be considered as CSAM. AppleInsider notes that the baby would be perceived as within the category of painted cherubs. On top of that, the Nevermind cover artwork has become an icon of pop culture.
Even if the album art does trigger Apple’s algorithm, there’ll still be a second layer of human review to go through. Images will only be flagged, with the accounts getting disabled, when a human administrator deems them unacceptable.
So put on your headphones and lull your worries away, as there’s no way you’d suddenly become an offender in Apple’s eyes.
[via AppleInsider, cover image via Apple Music]
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