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Interesting question: how does Google figure out if it’s porn or not? Do they have people reviewing my personal data? I work in computer vision, and while you
by throwaway84742 9y ago
Interesting question: how does Google figure out if it’s porn or not? Do they have people reviewing my personal data?
I work in computer vision, and while you can detect porn automatically, there are always false positives. Ie someone takes a pic or video of their kids taking a bath, and the algorithm may mistake it for child porn. If it’s fully automatic, it could delete a priceless video, but if it’s not, some dude in a cubicle somewhere could be jacking off to the video of your kids taking a bath.
- zokier 9y agoI suspect there is manual review. But I also suspect that the threshold for triggering that would be pretty high, and a single positive detection would not yet be enough. Sure, false positives happen, but I imagine that repeated false positives would be diminishingly rare.
- dahdum 9y agoSo Google will look at any nude or sexy images someone stores as backup, in order to make a determination to delete? Walking a tight rope of PR disaster if they get too strict, and the news they scan and manually check is just the kind of outrage the public is expecting.
- probably_wrong 9y agoI imagine they have some extra data that gives the algorithm an extra push. How many files in this folder are flagged as porn? Which percentage of the user's files are flagged as such? Do these files match any of our hashes of known illegal content? In other cases, I can imagine an employee reviewing borderline cases. I can also imagine that the person in charge, rather than jacking off to those pictures, might be drinking whisky from the bottle to forget what he sees every day. But I imagine that Google would rather delete the data and shrug - they are not known for their love of human reviewers (see You tube's strike system).