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UK Police's Porn-Spotting AI Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Gizmodo:
London's Metropolitan Police believes that its artificial intelligence software will be up to the task of detecting images of child abuse in the next "two to three years." But, in its current state, the system can't tell the difference between a photo of a desert and a photo of a naked body... "Sometimes it comes up with a desert and it thinks its an indecent image or pornography," Mark Stokes, the department's head of digital and electronics forensics, recently told The Telegraph. "For some reason, lots of people have screen-savers of deserts and it picks it up thinking it is skin colour."
The article concludes that the London police software "has yet to prove that it can successfully differentiate the human body from arid landscapes."
The article concludes that the London police software "has yet to prove that it can successfully differentiate the human body from arid landscapes."
One hump, or two?
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
""For some reason, lots of people have screen-savers of desert"
Are they really openly admitting to RAT-surveilling everyone?! What am I missing?
WTF are police doing scanning the images used for screen savers? Those aren't, generally, on a public server.
It the UK cops have a trojan on UK computers, I think the rest of the world should get to work burying their servers in noise. Antivirus definitions need updating ASAP.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Until we have fully conscious, self-aware, general AI that can think, all we're going to get is trolled by the hype of marketing assholes who only care about making the sale, and couldn't care less if the gods-be-damned thing actually works. Even then, in this case, no AI will EVER be able to differentiate between 'art' and 'pornography' -- because HUMANS can't even agree on that. This is the real danger of so-called 'AI's: people will be fooled into believing they actually work, when in fact the family pet will have better and more accurate cognitive ability than any of this bullshit.
or not hot dog.
You'd think they'd use the images shipped with the world's most widely deployed desktop operating system in their baseline training.
African, Asian, European desert lands all uncovered and untouched by man. Clean shaven of all foliage. Aching for a BBC (big black camera) to shoot all over their majestic vistas. They want long lenses and offer roads for deep penetrations into their wildest areas. Only $9.95/mo gets you all access to hours of video and thousands of pictures. Round, brown mounds of dirt, golden, flowing sands, fiery red sunsets are all waiting for you!
A picture of a nude person in a desert must render this thing catatonic ;)
The software acts like an 18-year old male.
to peoples screen-saver's in the first place?
The big question is why the hell do they bother to detect nudes?
I would even ask why the hell do they want to spot pornography?
Both are very common human expressions and they should not be a reason for police investigation.
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Desertophilia !!
There is legit usage cases for this software. I, for one, would not trust people who jack off to images of deserts. They should be put on some police list of some sort, so that I know to avoid them.
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I can understand the problems they're having....
If you gave me a choice between a printer and a giraffe with explosive diarrhoea, i'll get my ladder and my raincoat
Racists!
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
DUNE is a misspelling of NUDE.
I'm a hooker and beach body ready. Maybe this confused their algorithm. Like, guys? Eyes on the job!
P.S. If the cops want to peep at my pictures they can pay for them like everyone else.
First in the suckitude ranking.
Is pretty close to a photo that was on the inside covers of a high school yearbook. Many students penciled in nipples on two dunes, it looked just like a slender woman's body after adding nips.
rule 34?
Perhaps this says something about the obesity epidemic...
To preserve morale during long-haul missions, all male officers above the rank of First Technician must, during panto season, be ready to put on a dress and a pair of false breasts ??
and now I'm classified a zoophile. Thanks a lot.
They're expecting AI to be able to tell the difference between an under-aged nude and an adult nude? Wow that's going to take a long time.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
No one else is bothered by the fact the UK (and probably the US also) government can easily scan everyone's hard drives? I knew there was a reason they were giving Windows 10 for free when it was released.
I mean, correct me if I am wrong but doesn't the only way to see what images people have on their desktops mean that the Metropolitan Police are poking around and doing some sort of unauthorized remote access into peoples' machines?
How else would they become aware of the types of screensavers people are using? Not sure but I find this more than slightly creepy.
Is this more of that famous Nanny State® at work again? "Think Of The Children" gone wrong...
On Arrested Development, a close-up photo of a man's balls was mistaken for Iraq desert! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=23_CbPZ3264
is delicious! :)
Aren't dessert pics kinda pornographic? :)
I forgot about those chocolate bars but my brain didn't...
(Related question: What does the loli pop?)
I came across an extremely simple skin detection algorithm some time ago and made a GLSL implementation. Check here for a demo and explanation (click about). http://labs.thygate.com/amazin... It is actually quite robust if the lighting conditions of the scene don't change too much.
Depending upon the presence of the winter Sun in equatorial latitudes.
Sounds like a gay porn scene to me
What are they thinking?
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What are the police doing where they have access to a screen saver???
Are we all fully infiltrated, all of the time?
What prevents the placement of a file or directory on someones computer if the police have this type of access?
The world we live in is that of Pizzagate, but here we are again reporting on the common man, who know they are in grasp, and obey the law.
Kalu Yuga, this is the time we live in, inverted by the devil.
Please no one show it the quantum of solace intro sequence!!!
first, Christians. There's a concept I call "Aggregate Sin" because I can't think of a better name for it. Christians (the ones who take the Bible literally) believe that if there's too much sin in the world God will punish us. e.g. God punishes the Faithful for the sins of the heretic. Therefore sin, any sin, is an existent threat to them. If you extrapolate from the tales of Sodom & Gomorrah & Noah's Ark this makes sense. You see this most commonly when a natural disaster strikes and a bunch of them come out of the wood work to claim it's the Lord punishing us for sinning. The important thing here is to understand that the Lord isn't very picky about who he punishes. This incentivizes Christians to control non Christian behavior; up to and including converting them. It's a big part of why Christianity spreads the way it does.
As for the other reason, well the entire system is designed to keep the working class' attention somewhere else while the Aristocracy pockets all the money. It's a classic technique (along with Balkanization, usually along racial or caste divides but sometimes along ideological, e.g. wedge issues). Basically, if 1% of the populace is going to take 50-90% of the wealth for themselves they have to create all sorts of crazy systems to make that work.
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Allow me to further elaborate as to WHY i found this algorithm so interesting, because it's so ridiculously simple. It considers a pixel is skin if 50 R - G 250, where R and G are the red and green channels from a 8-bit RGB pixel representation. Sure it's not meant for the prime-time, it's just a very interesting curiosity, and easy to perform in parallel.
darn html got filtered of < symbols.
Damb there in there somewhere... all 70 of em.
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Muh cgi kid renders look almost real atm. ;)
It has gone beyond dreaming and is seeing mirages!
...in you are into that.
Should hire better programmers,sounds like the AI is very badly made. UK scans people's computers?
Now I know why georgia o'keeffe work gets me so aroused, I must be an AI
the people distributing this stuff surely would use negative images to fool basic skin tone capture
Am I the only one who read desserts?
more people need to be using skin moisturizers. That would solve the problem.
Quite likely the reason that humans like pictures of desert dunes is also that they trigger parts of the brain that respond to nude people. This is a feature!
Maybe it's dyslexic, and can't tell the difference between small nudes and small dunes.
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.
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If you train a simple logistic regression or SVM model on image data where the images are represented in pixels, it would return something like that. Dumbing down the final model could then give a simple rule like 50R - G250, and this kind of dumbing down is known to be surprisingly effective in many cases.
hot sandy mounds
This reminds me of Daft Punk's Electroma where at some point during a long desert scene it shows a slow pan towards a vagina complete with pubic hair that looks like scrub on top of a hill.
I see the desert
as a beautiful woman
without any clothes
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