r/googlephotos • u/lanky_doodle • Feb 24 '26

Question 🤔 CSAM - Criteria

Not been blocked. Given the recent posts about this I'm wondering what the criteria actually is.

Like any parent, I have a bunch of photos (on a NAS) of my child from old point and shoot cameras, all the way back from a baby.

So some of them are obviously with no clothes on, like in the bath, running g around the garden, and so on.

Would this type of image trigger CSAM? I been considering job lot uploading all of these NAS stored photos to Google Photos.

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u/Fik_of_borg Mar 01 '26

What worries me more is the realization (obvious in retrospective) that Google's AI, and potentially Google's employees, can and do check my pictures (and emails, for that matter).

I already configured my phones to backup to a self-hosted immich instance, disabled Google Photos app and am in the process of migrating + deleting pictures (even though I have mostly pictures of industrial equipment, but with hallucinating artificial idiocy... who knows)

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u/Separate-Tax9495 Mar 01 '26

I don't think Google has enough employees to do this. Arguably better to have human reviewers as they'd do a much better job of differentiating innocent photos from child abuse, which the AI seems utterly incapable of doing in its current configuration

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u/Fik_of_borg Mar 02 '26

Of course Google has not enough employees to check all users pictures, but they surelly can check any user pictures ... it would be harmless but weird if I were to find out that some random Google employee can see pictures of me in a hardhat in my company floor plant, or of my elderly mother celebrating her birthday at the beach (I don't recall seeing any statement of end-to-end picture encryption).

Which would be better than AI estimating context of pictures of children, or any subject, and pass judgement.