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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. First thoughts by TimMD909 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who's the team that handles the training data, and are they hiring?

    1. Re:First thoughts by cayenne8 · · Score: 2, Informative
      I've got a quick and cheap way to avoid 'revenge porn'.

      Don't let people take pictures/video of you while nekkid or while performing sex acts.

      It actually works...

      Sometimes it is the simple answers that are the best.

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    2. Re:First thoughts by sycodon · · Score: 2

      If you allow someone to film you having sex, you are either stupid or a porn star.

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    3. Re:First thoughts by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

      Why were they in my barn in the first place?

      That was a baaaaaaaad joke.

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  2. Silver bullets don't work. by Mr.+Dollar+Ton · · Score: 2

    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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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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  5. Easier solution to the revenge porn problem by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just burn Facebook to the ground and never rebuild it. Problem solved!
    Delete your Facebook account TODAY. Take your privacy back!

  6. Great strides in AI by FritzTheCat1030 · · Score: 2

    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.