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Facebook Readies AI Tech To Combat 'Revenge Porn' (reuters.com)
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.
Who's the team that handles the training data, and are they hiring?
Half-assed "AI" silver bullets, done as a pretense of "caring about our users" work even less.
Zuckerberg's business is acquiring personal data, and using this to help other like himself peddle shit for money. He ain't interested in your causes, well-being, the harm someone causes you, or anything else beyond selling his service, and getting his stock up.
The only way to win is not to play.
For anyone who posts revenge porn, Facebook should just remotely activate the camera on the person's device and get their own pictures. That'll make people think twice.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
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?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
... 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.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Just burn Facebook to the ground and never rebuild it. Problem solved!
Delete your Facebook account TODAY. Take your privacy back!
I'm extremely interested to learn how their "machine learning and artificial intelligence" is going to be able to determine whether an image is shared with permission or without permission. This seems like a tremendous leap forward in AI capabilities.
AI to remove revenge porn is a start, but it is not enough. There are reports of low-paid workers employed by contracted companies to work in pressure-cooker environment screening everything that goes up on facebook ending up mental and emotional wrecks because of the work. And yet, they still get criticised for missing stuff. What these people go through to make facebook clean enough for us to use is appalling. If facebook will not pay and support these people adequately and cannot automate the removal of it they are profiting from human suffering.
go figure... https://en.mediamass.net/peopl...
I question how they can possibly determine whether the pictures are "shared without permission", but at least this is better than their previous "send us your nudes and we won't let anyone else see them ... you can trust me babe, I swear" program.
Ah, Silicon Valley.
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Spain on anything to do with Catalonia?
A German gov with any news, culture, history, politics it does not want published?
France with news about French politics? Funny cartoons? Memes?
Anyone in the UK who had anything published in the news about them over decades?
Communist China on Taiwan, a cartoon bear? Anything to do with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests?
Cults, religions and theocracies looking for sinful publications and anything they see as blasphemy?
Topics big brands consider sinful? Free speech? DRM? Comments on junk computer software and OS? Junk crypto?
A bad movie review and comments on the politics of a movie?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"