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UK Police's Porn-Spotting AI Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes (gizmodo.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the sand-in-the-gears dept.

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."

6 of 144 comments (clear)

  1. I guess it's down to camels now: by fyngyrz · · Score: 4, Funny

    One hump, or two?

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    1. Re:I guess it's down to camels now: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Pregnant!

  2. Re:UK police scanning your screen saver images! by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who is General Failure and what is he doing reading my hard drive?

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  3. Legit usage by Ecuador · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  4. It's a simple coding error by bobstreo · · Score: 5, Funny

    DUNE is a misspelling of NUDE.

  5. Re:UK police scanning your screen saver images! by QRDeNameland · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just hope they don't call in Colonel Panic.

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