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Detecting Nudity With AI and OpenCV

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the swapping-out-the-interns dept.

mikejuk writes: AI gets put to some strange tasks. Not satisfied with the Turing test or inventing Skynet, Algorithmia have put together a nudity detector. Take one face detector from OpenCV and use it to find a nose. Take the skin color from the nose and then see what parts of the body are skin colored in the photo. If there is lot of skin color shout NUDE! Actually, the website lets you put in your own photos and classifies them into Rude or Good and gives you a confidence estimate. Obama with his top off — no problem but the familiar image processing test photo of Lena the pin up girl rates a 'Rude'.

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  1. Nude == Rude? by dskoll · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why does "Nude" equate to "Rude"? Oh right, I forgot... we're afraid of our bodies and spooked by healthy sexuality.

    1. Re:Nude == Rude? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I remember back when I was 14, raised in my fundamentalist protestant christian community. No playboy magazine. No masturbation without guilt. Sexual desire was lust, which was a sin, and I was supposed to resist temptation and ask for forgiveness.

      We had no sexual outlets. So, we played with the girls every chance we got. And they were just as eager, because they were in the same boat. The moment the grown-ups weren't around, neither were the clothes. Did I mention we did not have access to condoms, pills, or any form of birth control at all?

      I am damn lucky I didn't knock anyone up. The only reason, in fact, that I didn't get someone preggo was because I DID learn (in a single akward conversation that does not qualify as sex education) the barest basics of how babies were made. Obviously, such an event would get us caught, so we played in every way we could other than that. Well some of us did, anyway. A few got pregnant.

      *THIS* is not healthy or safe for the kids. It is not even sane. Educate those kids. Every fact they have is a fact they can use to make wise choices. And for God's sakes give them access to free condoms...not to condone sexuality, but to protect the especially hormonal ones from the life-destroying consequences that otherwise result.

      Also, let go of your ridiculous notions of childhood innocence. It's a fantasy you make up. We were all dirty old men at the age of about six.