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Facebook Uses Machine Learning To Remove 8.7 Million Child Exploitation Posts (techcrunch.com)
Facebook announced today in a blog post that it has removed 8.7 million posts last quarter that violated its rules against child exploitation. The company said it used new AI and machine learning technology to remove 99 percent of those posts before anyone reported them. TechCrunch reports: The new technology examines posts for child nudity and other exploitative content when they are uploaded and, if necessary, photos and accounts are reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Facebook had already been using photo-matching technology to compare newly uploaded photos with known images of child exploitation and revenge porn, but the new tools are meant to prevent previously unidentified content from being disseminated through its platform. The technology isn't perfect, with many parents complaining that innocuous photos of their kids have been removed. Davis addressed this in her post, writing that in order to "avoid even the potential for abuse, we take action on nonsexual content as well, like seemingly benign photos of children in the bath" and that this "comprehensive approach" is one reason Facebook removed as much content as it did last quarter. The tech isn't always right though. In 2016, it was criticized for removing content like the iconic 1972 photo of Phan Thi Kim Phuc, known as the "Napalm Girl," fleeing naked after suffering third-degree burns in a South Vietnamese napalm attack on her village. COO Sheryl Sandberg apologized for it at the time.
Always nice when the machine tells you what's appropriate and what isn't.
Because the machine is always right. Even when it isn't, then we'll just say it's right anyway and leave it at that.
How's 10 to 15 in federal sex offender prison for posting pictures the AI flagged "exploitative" of your toddler niece having fun in an inflatable pool in the sun sound? For the AI can't be wrong, now can it?
Verily, facebook is showing us the way to the future.
Oh great, here we go with the nudity = porn crap again.
Just like a real human, we're just based on analogue electrochemical signals but you cannot seriously believe an emotion is anything but that, do you?
People shouldn't post photos of toddlers in the bath on Facebook
People shouldn't post photos of naked children on Facebook,even if burned during a war. It's not an art or history site. It's the worst possible place to share such things. Post a link, that's fine.
Facebook is for "Social Media". Keep it to day-to-day stuff, without naked children.
Facebook is trying hard to be more than it is, and it's comical the ends they will go to in order to attempt this.
Facebook is where people comment about a restaurant or a trip to the bathroom. Nothing More.
BlameBillCosby.com
The real question is how the hell they managed to allow 8.7 million exploitative posts in the first place... They ban conservatives for the most menial of infractions daily, but they've been turning a blind eye while accumulating nearly 9 million exploitative posts? Talk about fucked up priorities.