that looks pretty good

> To meet the law’s demands, companies are expected to rely heavily on automated scanning systems, content detection algorithms, and artificial intelligence models trained to evaluate the legality of text, images, and videos in real time.

this means either devices need to evolve to do this locally, or the items need to be sent to external service providers, usually based outside of the UK, to scan them unencrypted

I also assume this means the government here in the UK are okay with all whatsapp messages they send to be sent to an LLM to scan them for legality, outside the UK?

scanned locally or externally? that's what i care about

Don't buy into the framing. No scanning at all is what I care about.

Don't buy into that framing either. Optional scanning - if a user wants to, they are free to download government spyware onto their phone/computer and do all the scanning they want, local or otherwise. No new laws needed.

I agree. If someone is happy for a government worker/algorithm to snoop through everything they send to anyone, feel free to opt in, just don't force us to participate.

But that someone is forcing all their contacts into the snooping scheme unless they never communicate with anyone.

That is why I said for them and their family.

If you use app A and that app is scanned for "malicious" content then I will message you on app B where there is no such scanning. If you don't want to use app B then I guess we can't be friends.

I mean at some point you need to make some choices.

But the beauty is that if anyone wants to talk through app A exclusively and their contacts are happy to respond on the same platform, then they can do that.

The rest of us can use app B.

You have no issue with censorship, as long as there's no surveillance to go with it?

Externally. When is anything ever scanned internally.

100% agree with you on this. We have enough places for politics. This is meant to be hacker news.

Anthropic should buy OpenCode and merge with CC

Please no. I have recently switched to opencode and the product quality is so much higher.

Isn't this off topic for here?

Maybe an "interesting new phenomenon"?

I was once only given $1,000 for an exploit where I could put in npm usernames and get their email addresses. Big corps don't always pay what they should.

LLMs will eat this up

A way it could be...

Just normal metadata endpoint that may be interesting to some people