Facebook Readies AI Tech To Combat 'Revenge Porn' (reuters.com) 58
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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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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If you allow someone to film you having sex, you are either stupid or a porn star.
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If someone films me having sex, I can shoot them for trespassing. Why were they in my barn in the first place?
Re:First thoughts (Score:4, Funny)
Why were they in my barn in the first place?
That was a baaaaaaaad joke.
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If there is someone who actually wants to film me having sex I would question their sanity.
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Seriously. They're no better than the people trying to film leprechauns or bigfoot.
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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.
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Huh?
Why would your partner be in possession of that stuff in the first place? Can nobody say "no" these days?
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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
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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
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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.
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Yeah, I know. But then you weakened your stance to include trusting yourself. :-D
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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)
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.
Fight fire with fire (Score:2)
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.
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Anyone with a brain taped over their camera a long time ago.
Anyone with a brain probably isn't posting revenge porn.
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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)
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)
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)
... 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)
Delete your Facebook account TODAY. Take your privacy back!
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Please explain how deleting your Facebook account prevents you from being a victim of revenge porn. Oh, it doesn't? zzzzz
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Great strides in AI (Score:3)
Not enough!!! (Score:1)
Its personal.... (Score:2)
go figure... https://en.mediamass.net/peopl... [mediamass.net]
Better than their "send us your nudes" initiative (Score:1)
Not Hotdog (Score:2)
Ah, Silicon Valley.
Maybe don't do viral livestreams first? (Score:2)
Just a thought.
Who gets to set what "permission" is? (Score:2)
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