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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 they need is a rating system, like /. The trolls still troll, but the amount of people exposed to the troll is greatly reduced and it ruins most of their fun. Sure they can continue to use it, but you could redirect them to other random trolls. That way all the trolls get to look at each others cocks, and people who aren't that interested in cock will get to the people they want to interact with faster.
i did a general pornography detection filter as a final project in an image processing class my senior year of undergraduate college... their best hope is around 90% detection with ~15% false positives. for the applications i was shooting for, that wasn't acceptable... for chatroulette, it might be, but even at 95% you're still getting 1/20th of the dicks. if most people on the network are dicks, that might still mean getting a dick almost every time. might as well just start selling boner pills and embrace your market rather than attempt to squash it.