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Facebook Readies AI Tech To Combat 'Revenge Porn' (reuters.com) 58

Posted by msmash 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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  • Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:58AM (#58278136)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion

    • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

      by cayenne8 ( 626475 )
      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.

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by sycodon ( 149926 )

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

      • 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.

        Dude, the definition of revenge porn makes it clear that it only becomes so once posted on the internet and with specific aim(s).

        revealing or sexually explicit images or videos of a person posted on the Internet, typically by a former sexual partner, without the consent of the subject and in order to cause them distress or embarrassment.

        Your solution, though it would work, is drastic in these circumstances I think.

        • Huh?

          Why would your partner be in possession of that stuff in the first place? Can nobody say "no" these days?

      • Comment removed based on user account deletion

        • Don't trust anyone, including the person you're married to because you trust them?

          Kinda awkward.

          I agree it's what everyone should do, it's just not good advice, because there's literally no set of circumstances in which it'd be followed. If you don't trust your partner, you're probably not going to let them film you already.

          Well, trust only goes JUST so far...trust of anyone.

          Remember, in this world, the ONLY person you can trust 101% implicitly...is YOU.

          I guess exceptions have to be made for schizoph

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by dgatwood ( 11270 )

            Remember, in this world, the ONLY person you can trust 101% implicitly...is YOU.

            I don't trust myself to take pictures of me naked, either. That would require trusting my devices. The assumption is that those photos are usually obtained because of a breakup and the guy being a complete a**hole, but that isn't guaranteed to be the case. Devices and accounts get compromised all the time. If images exist on your phone, they can be stolen. The only way to be 100% safe is to ensure that the images do not exi

            • The only way to be 100% safe is to ensure that the images do not exist in the first place.

              That was my original assertion that started this thread.

              The only way to prevent revenge porn on you, is to NOT allow yourself to be photographed or video shot of you naked or doing a sex act.

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

        It actually works...

        You've never heard of hidden cameras?

  • Silver bullets don't work. (Score:3)

    by Mr. Dollar Ton ( 5495648 ) on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:20AM (#58278272)

    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.

    • Anyone with a brain taped over their camera a long time ago.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Nidi62 ( 1525137 )

        Anyone with a brain taped over their camera a long time ago.

        Anyone with a brain probably isn't posting revenge porn.

      • Why would you use a brain to tape over your camera? I find that a small piece of paper or some masking tape works well enough...

  • They already don't allow porn (Score:5, Interesting)

    by drinkypoo ( 153816 ) <drink@hyperlogos.org> on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:32AM (#58278354) Homepage Journal

    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?

    • Re:They already don't allow porn (Score:5, Interesting)

      by dissy ( 172727 ) on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:38AM (#58278432)

      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.

  • It's a ruse ... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by CaptainDork ( 3678879 ) on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:38AM (#58278430)

    ... 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.

  • Easier solution to the revenge porn problem (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Rick Schumann ( 4662797 ) on Friday March 15, 2019 @11:07AM (#58278676) Journal
    Just burn Facebook to the ground and never rebuild it. Problem solved!
    Delete your Facebook account TODAY. Take your privacy back!

    • Please explain how deleting your Facebook account prevents you from being a victim of revenge porn. Oh, it doesn't? zzzzz

      • Put your glasses on, your severe myopia flaring up again. Also go call your sponsor and get your ass to an AA meeting.

  • Great strides in AI (Score:3)

    by FritzTheCat1030 ( 758024 ) on Friday March 15, 2019 @11:51AM (#58279052)
    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

  • go figure... https://en.mediamass.net/peopl... [mediamass.net]

  • 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" [theguardian.com] program.

  • Ah, Silicon Valley.

  • 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 s

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