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…Maybe we should? All it would take is someone publishing the hash database and then another group working to generate hamming-similar images. Shouldn’t be that hard if it’s as broken as people claim. What’s that saying, “can’t outlaw something that is commonly acceptable behavior”? Point being attacking the system would either prove or compel the false positive rate to be “acceptable”, or result in it being dismantled. Still ideologically opposed but this may be a practical “solution”.


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