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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.
That's all.
Yeah because typing an extra "t" is so hard to do on an touch keyboard....
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
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!
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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Worse than that, the internet is a huge place.
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?...
...and most of us wouldn't have it any other way...
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
Steve Jobs said "People who want porn can buy an Android phone." Thanks for the suggestion, Steve, I think I will.
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
AOL caused a recursive feedback loop to occur because it's run by a bunch of tits.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
It searches the whole internet.
Not sure what else you expect.
Well, it did until they blocked 'butt' and 'huge'. I'm guessing there are other people gaming it right now with other words.
'MLP' doesn't show anything 'huge'
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
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...
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....
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.
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
Better not have this happen if you are black. A cop would shoot you because he could clearly see there was a gun in your pants.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!