I'm looking into this Android System SafetyCore thing, because I'm not convinced there's anything actually there and it's not just another version of that old email chain letter about deleting some EXE from system32 because it was spying on you or something
and google's apk transparency says it's "an Android system component that provides privacy-preserving on-device user protection infrastructure for apps."
https://developers.google.com/android/binary_transparency/google1p/overview
an internal name seems to be "Persephone" which doesn't seem to be publicly mentioned anywhere
I'm reasonably sure the "it is supposed to blur nudes with an on-device AI!" bit is wrong. I searched through the deassembly for any calls you'd expect if it looks at images, and found nothing. I don't think this thing does that.
@foone stated purpose is detection of nudes or "inappropriate images" in Google Messages, I assume other apps are supposed to be able to use its api to check images
@noiob stated where and by who?
@noiob thanks