As of this moment, it's an unknowable black box. That said, apple has stated that the system will match on a photo even if it's been resized, shifted formats or been otherwise altered. It is NOT a simple file hash. In order to create a hash that survives re-encoding or resizing, content analysis must be happening. Whether that changes your calculus or not is another matter entirely.

that enough people use this for it to be useful in any real way.

but I have a fairly modest PC and I couldn't tell you the last time I said "Man, I wish I could render these 64 JPEGs in 4 seconds instead of this lousy 7." As far as I'm concerned, text and image rendering hasn't noticeably changed in 10+ years. But, I suppose you have to have something to make up for alienating your userbase with an interface designed for a machine it's not running.

I don't know about the rest of the Slashdot crowd, but every time I hear or see the word 'cyber,' I want to scream. Especially in relation to nonsense like cyber-warfare, cyber-espionage, cyber-attack, etc. What's wrong with 'network,' or 'computer?'

Reading a research paper a few years ago that presented the idea that the best way to approach the game was through catastrophe avoidance. The idea was to identify the moves that would lead to a massive loss, then to take another move at random. I wonder how their AI would fare in comparison.