Apple’s iMessage Scanning Flagged a Video of My Friend's Dog as Nudity

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Apple's iMessage nudity detection feature flagged a video of a dog being petted as potentially containing nudity, blurring it for recipients. The on-device machine learning model also misclassified photos of other animals, including a dog and a deer, in similar incidents reported on Apple forums. The false positives show how content moderation systems can overreach even when operating locally on devices without sending data to Apple.