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Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm
Show them while you can, Internet exhibitionists. Chatroulette is working on image-recognition software that will filter out shots of male genitalia. The website's founder, Andrey Ternovskiy, hopes that blocking the offending members will help clean up Chatroulette's reputation. He's even enlisted the help of Napster founder Shawn Fanning. I wonder if someone has told Andrey how well it went for Napster?
What if I have a bisected penis, you insensitive clod?!?!? Or maybe just some really flashy jewelry...
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90% of ChatRoulette users get dropped.
I thought the whole point of chatroulette was a gamble between seeing an actual person or just a dude jacking off.
Would you hug a bear?
Chatroulette is working on image-recognition software that will filter out shots of male genitalia.
So women can show their hoo-ha, but I can't show my ting-ting? Where's the ACLU on this one?
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
I created an image using a traffic barrel monster with the words "No Masturbate". It got a lot of laughs, even from a few of the guys masturbating (you could tell it interrupted their concentration).
will it filter out dickheads?
There's actually a pretty decent amount of it, albeit a small fraction of the amount of male genitalia. Strangely enough though, it has not drawn a proportionate number of complaints.
I hope the filter is hard on people. They need to understand there are stiff rules.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Well if they take out the penises all that will be left is tits, pussy, ass, faces, signs, and fake webcam drivers.
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.
Awesome! That would lead to an hilarious wave of penises wearing Groucho glasses.
I'm going out on a bit of a limb here, so bear with me if you wood...
But seriously, figuring out an algorithm to ID wangs; sounds like those developers are going to be eyebrow deep in junk for a while. That's a job, much like plumbing, that I can appreciate for the value of the product, but can't fathom the drive to devote oneself to.
Of blankness, I know nothing.
about all those times I am sitting on ChatRoulette eating hotdogs?
It looks like the line that reads:
"...hopes that blocking the offending members will help clean up Chatroulette's reputation."
should read:
"...hopes that blocking the offending members' members will help clean up Chatroulette's reputation."
Just my $0.02...
--Stak
Holy happy hippy crap!
...cockblock"
It'll be interesting when they start getting false positives: "Sorry dude, but you actually DO look like a dick."
"I wonder if someone has told Andrey how well it went for Napster?"
I didn't realize that Napster's failure was due to its single-minded focus on creating a genital recognition system.
I'd hate to be on the QA team that gets to test that "feature"... Charlie, can you please stop pulling out your thing and just use a dildo like the rest of us?
I thought the whole point of chatroulette was a gamble between seeing an actual person or just a dude jacking off.
Like global thermonuclear war, "The only way to win is not to play".
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
That analogy would validate if, when faced with seat belts and airbags, the cause of car crashes evolved.
A friend of mine's description of Chatroulette:
"How many clicks to dick?"
I think that if they broadened their genital-blocking horizons, their userbase would dry up.
You mean SHRIVEL up.
you surreptitiously run another, completely unrelated, site called RankMyPenis, where gay men can rank fresh Penis. Anything that isn't a penis, they mark as "Mark as spam for investigation", but obviously won't throw a fit over. They'll complain that seventy out of every eighty pictures is spam, but you know what? They'll keep clicking for penis. And that's a fact.
Like the miniature sombrero and fake mustache I already wear on my wang when on CR. You can never be too safe on the internet...
--- He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down. ---
Let's hope it's not made by HP and accidentally filters out darker skinned people.
"Offending members". He he.
I've only seen real, live boobies once on Chatroulette, and I'm not even sure they were human. Looked more like a friggin' whale. She got upset when I asked her to do the truffle shuffle.