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Facebook Readies AI Tech To Combat 'Revenge Porn' (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the tussle-continues dept.

Facebook said on Friday it would use AI to combat the spread of intimate photos shared without people's permission, sometimes called "revenge porn," on its social networks. From a report: The new technology is in addition to a pilot program that required trained representatives to review offending images. "By using machine learning and artificial intelligence, we can now proactively detect near nude images or videos that are shared without permission," the social networking giant said in a blog post. "This means we can find this content before anyone reports it." A member of Facebook's community operations team would review the content found by the new technology, and if found to be an offending image, remove it or disable the account responsible for spreading it, the company added.

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  1. They already don't allow porn by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why does it matter if it's revenge porn, when they don't allow any porn? Are they going to start allowing non-revenge porn?

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    1. Re:They already don't allow porn by dissy · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Why does it matter if it's revenge porn, when they don't allow any porn? Are they going to start allowing non-revenge porn?

      That was my second thought, just after my brain woke up wasting seconds wondering how the hell an AI or even another human can determine permission.

      If one party to the porn only gave permission to the other party who is doing the posting, how could anyone determine that without asking?

      But yea, then the realization of "wait, when did it become ok to put porn on facebook even *with* permission?"

      This is either some idiot reporter spin, or even facebook spin, trying to attribute far more to a basic porn banning filter than really exists.

  2. It's a ruse ... by CaptainDork · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... Facebook wants an excuse to scan billions of photos and videos to train and weaponize digital recognition.

    Members are crowdsourcing the data it needs for government -- any government -- contracts.

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