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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.
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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.
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!
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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iOS 10 is turning out to be even MORE fun than Windows 10.
Awesome job, Tim!
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Errr, Apple uses Bing for search.
Steve Jobs said "People who want porn can buy an Android phone." Thanks for the suggestion, Steve, I think I will.
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.
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I fail to see any problem here.
There was a man in the picture as opposed to two women.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
just like removing the headphone jack
I hate to think what a search for "HEADphone JACK" returns on iOS 10.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
... 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
I just tried it, and there's a little "bing" copyright at the bottom of the image list. So technically it's Microsoft's fault. :)
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?
LOL at the level of ignorance of this comment.
No wonder you posted anonymously.
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there are no law requiring you to be 13 to use the internet, in either the USA or Canada. What are you taking that from ? I'm not sure for 18 for a cell service contract either, but that doesn't matter that much if she's using it on wifi, does it ? Does all phone contract say that you can't lend it to someone under 18 ?
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.
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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.
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....
That explains everything, then. Does anyone use Bing to search anything other than porn?
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
I fail to see any problem here.
There was a man in the picture as opposed to two women.
No, there was a woman in the picture as opposed to two men. This is Apple we are talking about.
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.
Nice theory, but I don't recall anyone telling me as a kid I was not allowed to have anything to do with it, but it didn't stop me being drawn to pictures of naked women if I came across them, certainly by the age of 8 in what you might call a proto-sexual way. I recognised my reaction as being like nothing else I experienced (still is), and I did not care to discuss or share my feelings with others around that time, or long after.
Educate your kids,... and they'll do a better job managing it./p>
I cannot help feeing that people who consider that sex is just another nice thing (maybe) to be "managed" like good food or a refreshing stroll and a functional way of making babies, playing it down in that way, are missing something major in their constitution.
I feel sorry for her husband if she thinks oral is "hardcore."
Why? Just because it is hardcore does not mean she does not do it. I do hardcore things; I don't put pictures of them on the web though.
- 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.
Bing seems to be MADE for searching for porn images.
Whoever designed its UI did it one handed.
I can see the fnords!
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.
seems like something no one was asking for. To add insult to injury, Apple's poor implementation is offensive. No one wins here.
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.
Hey, are you insinuating that a woman is worth half of a man's worth? That's offensive.
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