AFP having a sook that they can't use Clearview AI despite it being a privacy dumpster fire

The Australian is running propaganda for the AFP today, claiming that unless the AFP is allowed to use "AI technologies such as Clearview AI – a platform banned in Australia", a "tsunami" of online child abuse will wash over us. The article quotes a former QLD cop saying that "we are fighting with our hands behind our back" and "right now the privacy we're protecting is the child sex offender". Lovely timing on this article, published a few days after the federal government grew a spine and stood up to the "won't somebody think of the children" brigade for once. The article also doesn't mention that the OAIC told the AFP to stop using Clearview AI without doing a privacy assessment. If the AFP is so keen, why aren't they going about it the right way? Probably because Clearview AI is a privacy nightmare and is more hassle than its worth.