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iOS 10 Is Surfacing Hardcore Porn GIFs in iMessage (theverge.com)
Apple has found itself in hot water once again. The company's revamped iMessage -- and the inclusion of a range of extensions -- isn't rendering the best of results. Hours after the release of iOS 10 -- which caused issues for some users -- news outlets noticed a "highly sexual" My Little Pony GIF was appearing in searches when curious minds searched for the word "butt". But that wasn't the end of it. The Verge explains the horror: A woman who emailed The Verge this afternoon says her eight-year-old daughter, while trying to send a message to her dad, was presented with "a very explicit image" of "a woman giving oral sex to a well endowed male." Her daughter hadn't searched for anything explicit, just the word "huge." I see the image come up like, holy shit, whoa whoa whoa, that's a hardcore porn image," Tassie Bethany, whose daughter discovered the image, tells The Verge by phone. "I grabbed the phone from her immediately. She typed in the word 'huge,' which isn't sexual in any nature. It's just a word, not like butt or anything else." GIF search is one of the new features built into iMessage in iOS 10. Apple has been prohibiting searches for most sexual terms, but it's a real problem for porn to slip through for an otherwise normal term like "huge."Reminds me of Apple's old porn problems.
The internet is a filthy place, always has been.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
That's all.
What, what?!? If you search for the word 'butt', wouldn't you complain if you DIDN'T get an explicit image? Or is the problem that the My Little Pony image wasn't explicit enough? Maybe one really does have to go to the 2nd page of search results from time to time.
There are enough companies that know how to do search that apple could ally with We don't even have to mention Microsoft and Google who would determinedly sell the user's data if Apple let them. They could go to smaller players like Qwant who would give them great terms for such large business and who already know about privacy.
Instead, as ever Apple goes with NIH.
those iphone 7's might be useful after all?
My kid told me, their elementary school teacher would not say "Hate". If she needs to refer to the emotion at all, she'll say: "H-word".
Maybe, we ought to find an euphemism for "Huge" too now — but, obviously, it can not be "H-word", since that's already taken.
And then we time, how long it takes porn-producers to linking the euphemism to the same porn-images — thus forcing us to search for yet another replacement.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
If you don't set the content restrictions in the iOS settings, you'll get unfiltered results. Who'd-a-thought!
I fail to see any problem here.
The images appear to just be .gif type images originating from Bing. There's even a bing logo in the corner of the search window. I suspect it's similar to searching plain old Bing for .gif's. Even in safe search mode porn occasionally comes up.
It could have been yuge!
Well thankfully it wasn't an image of Trump. That would have been really traumatizing.
I tried an image search on various sites with the term "huge" and I got what I wanted, mostly...
Bing - all tits
Google - 50% tits
Yahoo - mostly tits
Dogpile - mostly tits
DuckDuckGo - mostly tits
AOL - broken, returned no results
Reverand Lovejoy: [throws Bart out] Don't you ever come near my daughter again! Never have I heard such gratuitous use of the word "butt"!
Bart Simpson: [pleading] But-but-but, but-but-but...
Helen Lovejoy: [covering her ears] Make him stop! Make him stop!
I can see butt giving NSFW images.
But the word "huge" has no business defaulting to porn.
I ran it on google and duckduckgo and did not have that problem, but run it on bing and you pics of very well endowed women.
This is an issue with Microsoft failing to do their job, not an issue with search engines in general.
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100 people trying to write rules to stop 100,000 people trying to share porn, whilst not stopping everybody else. How hard can it be? (I'll leave the question of whether a pun is intended to an internet poll.)
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The immortal words of GOB Bluth, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
iOS 10 is going to be HUGE!
captcha: quantity
She typed in the word 'huge,' which isn't sexual in any nature
Apparently this woman has never used the internet before.
iOS 10 is turning out to be even MORE fun than Windows 10.
Awesome job, Tim!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
In other news, massive firings at news outlets world wide after managers discover workers spending all their time on the job looking for pictures of butts.
Steve Jobs said "People who want porn can buy an Android phone." Thanks for the suggestion, Steve, I think I will.
just like removing the headphone jack
It won't stop the cartoon images but it seems like Apple could to save themselves a lot of grief by simply doing what websense does and filtering images with to much area that falls within the range of human flesh tones.
Repeal the 17th Amendment TODAY! Also Please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
It's obviously the user's fault. They're hitting "search" wrong.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
If the law says you need to be 13 to use the internet, and 18 to sign a contract for cell service, how/why is an 8 year old using a smartphone? Are the parents trying to blame Apple?
Since when was oral sex considered hardcore porn? And the mother's reaction will do more to interest her daughter in the image than anything else. As a kid you don't really care about anything sexual, until you're told that you're not allowed to have anything to do with it. Educate your kids, stop censoring the world from them and they'll do a better job managing it. You should tell them about reproduction before they ask you about it.
... huge things.
Why did they have to advertise the fact? I just searched for "butt" and "huge" and I go no results at all!
Thanks for ruining it for the rest of us. :P
Sounds like everything is in order. Move along the huge without hurting your butt, citizen!
They must be adding keyword blocks at a breakneck pace right now.
This sucks thought... NOW how am I going to send pictures of boobies, tits and shags to fellow bird-watchers?
Anyone else notice the prominent bing logo when messing with the image search?
Yeah, presumably some filtering is turned on but we all know filtering isnt perfect
tfs...
nah, the real problem is apple and other 'tards who continue to promote the idea that bodies and sexuality are shameful and as such appropriate to hide from people until {insert magic age}. such promotion is cowardly, wrong, mentally and socially destructive.
sex is ok. blow jobs are ok. big dicks are ok. apple... apple is NOT ok.
so society rolls on, neurosis firmly in hand, so to speak.
The Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg had an article in the Guardian about how the big media players are getting too much control over the information flow. I think it's a timid and diplomatic article and I would put it in stronger words. But at least we should be able to see that the danger exists that information flow is massaged to suit big powers. If google search buries a link then it does not exist. If google ads decides you're publishing information they don't like, they lock you out and you'll think twice after that. Mainstream media already stick to extremely narrow narratives, it will spread beyond that.
https://www.theguardian.com/co...
Where else are you supposed to store rainwater, or practice archery ?
Fucking namby pamby parents spoiling the English language for everyone.
The Internet is for Porn
I have mod points and I am not afraid to use them
that searching for "huge" in iMessage currently returns No Results
The internet has fixed itself.
I feel sorry for her husband if she thinks oral is "hardcore."
So I followed the verge link, they had nothing but paragraphs and a deadspin link. Followed that link and finally saw the awful terrible horrible disgusting gif.
If that's what people call "hardcore" then clearly what I've seen qualifies as ultra porn. And I'm not even close to 160 years old!
All the Ned Flanders and Lovejoys of the world need to get the fuck off the internet.
OH NOES...
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--H9XKf656--/k8yfw5klkdevjxdmcbse.gif
Summary: iOS10 makes porn easier than ever to access.
Result: AAPL up $3..80 for the day.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
If my website happens to have a picture on it, and you use image search to "Post" it to a friend
out of context, that's Copyright Infringement.
The accidental inclusion of porn should be the least of Apples' worries....
- Filters will never block adult content with 100% accuracy, especially if "it was very sexual" thoughtcrime counts.
- Image fetching extensions are little more than a search engine.
- Huge is a sexually-associated word to AI, don't argue with numbers.
I wouldn't be surprised if the fine print for the GIF extension says some "internet user experience may have varied content" boilerplate ala ESRB for online games.
Furries (and by subextension, bronies) ruin everything.
There's a use case for plenty of search terms to be unsafe. Thanks to this my "job" hunt became lots more interesting. Of course my wife didn't think so much of it when she saw.
Apples are the preferred choice of bronies and other deviants.
Half of the frustration with computers in the past few years is that they no longer do what we tell them - instead, they try to figure out what we really wanted and guess at what they should provide.
In the immortal words of Beka Valentine*, "Override Safety Protocols! Authorization code, 'Shut up and do what I tell you!' "
*And if you don't watch Andromeda, shame on you - it's quality is very uneven in places, but in many ways, it's the the best synthesis of Roddenberry's recurring themes in one show: The nature of humanity of AIs (Data, Questor, etc.) and aliens (Spock, et al), the genetic superman and his culture and realtionship with humanity (Khan, etc.), the heroic underdog, the character of the Captain, and more..
My manifesto for computing in the 21st century: "STOP TRYING TO HELP ME, DAMMIT, JUST DO WHAT I SAY!"
"The future's good and the present is nothing to sneeze at." - Roblimo's last
There should be specially curated phones for kids which will let them learn how to use one, including installing apps, in a safe manner.
Nobody searches a word, they go to a dictionary site. Then I quickly realized that I frequently do when I'm lazy. So I typed 'huge' in Google and got what I would expect. Then I typed it in Bing and... WTF?!
https://e621.net/post?tags=mlp...
do I really have to say NSFW?
seems like something no one was asking for. To add insult to injury, Apple's poor implementation is offensive. No one wins here.
So you idiots are okay with this? You think that children seeing pornography will have no effect on them? It's obviously had an effect on you - you think it's acceptable and 'normal', because the JEW media told you, over and over and over again... and guess who produces most of the world's pornography? Why, the eternal JEW...
Sure blame Apple for not protecting your daughter? Yep, your the parent and Apple has no clue who you or your daughter is and has a web filled with porn.
There are many reasons why watching pornography may be bad, but I have never been convinced that seeing pornography is likely to traumatise anybody, especially not a child, who would have no experience against which to interpret what they saw. It seems to me that any trauma that arises comes from adults making undue fuss over it and describing it as "dangerous" and "dirty". When you have no sexual experience and have yet to develop your drives and lusts, porn is more likely to evoke feelings of confusion and perhaps some level of disgust.
It's a big Internet, who cares. Sexual expression, perversion, etc. Don't like it? Get off the Internet. Apple shouldn't be held somehow accountable to antiquated value systems. Sure, there is decency, but let us all decide that for ourselves.
This is not something that requires zero action on the user's part, this is a relatively involved process that no one that has not read something more than something that tells them the feature is there would even think of trying. Try it yourself, you may not be able to get a spectacular nude of your preferred biological gender but you will see that no one just wrote "huge" while "just typing a message". True, younger generally means more tech savvy and more so when the parents are less educated and it is possible that she knew just how to do something her mom didn't and that she was sending it to a friend and when mom saw what she was doing she blamed it on the phone because she was "just texting daddy". After all, her daughter is totally innocent, right? A few years ago, Time ran an article on how early sexual behavior was actually starting (the article smacked of an attempt to induce a moral panic --as if the country needed another pseudoproblem!) and then there is the whole lipstick party thing and the colored bands on the wrist thing; all suggesting that the Freudian ideal of a "Latent Stage" --if it ever existed-- has not for quite some time. That is not to say that it is ok for some sicko predator to act out his or her fantasies but rather that children are curious and will do things that will outrage their parents and that the only question is not if they will but merely when.
MORAL PANIC!! No, really, PANIC NOW! REPRESS EVERYTHING!! IT IS ALL IMMORAL!! Can't you just hear Mrs. Lovejoy "WILL SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" If you listen, hidden in the screams, there are people screaming "I Hate APPLE!" and "BUY ANDROID SO YOU CAN ROOT IT!! APPLE IS EVIL!!" If you listen a little more, you can hear echoes of an attorney, so well known for his ads that Chiat-Day should hire him, and his customers. Remember a few years ago, the fashionable thing to do was to put a bug in a burger and SUE!! SUE!! SUE!!
Someday, some form of sense will break out and people will realize that their moral panic does more harm than whatever they are panicking about. How many people have died or been maimed because even though GOD doesn't make mistakes and we are all GOD's children and GOD is love, "Damm It!! Those gays and lesbians are evil (they probably used other far more offensive words). Maybe, people will realize that sex, on tv and otherwise, is not the cause of whatever panics you today; repression is. If the mom had calmly asked what the girl thought about what she was seeing and discuss with her the act of oral sex in a non-threatening and nonjudgmental way, the girl would probably have forgotten it by now. Instead, she will get her 15 minutes and come Monday, the whole school will know about it --and we all know how sensitive and caring children can be to other children [sic]-- and she will remember the entire event for the rest of her life. Even if they get their payday from Apple --dubious in its own right-- it will not be worth it but by the time the parent, made insane by moral panic and pushed further into a frenzy by those with either money to make or an axe to grind, it will be too late and it will be the child that they claimed to want to protect that will be all the worse for it.