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[โ€“] JPAKx4@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good news, that's not how the CSAM database works. What happens is the image is hashed (for non technical people, hashing is a way of always generating the same "ID" from the file data) and the image is discarded. Now the article I found to verify my claim also talks about how the FBI used to distribute CSAM to catch people, so they have some probably... But not a database wide amount.

https://cybernews.com/editorial/war-on-child-exploitation/

Well... I'm going to hope you are more right than wrong and that they do not actually have a massive CSAM database.