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Detecting porn is actually not that hard because you can look for skin color. With a bit of machine learning it’s totally doable and there are firewall solution
by bad_user 8y ago
Detecting porn is actually not that hard because you can look for skin color. With a bit of machine learning it’s totally doable and there are firewall solutions that can block porn content in real time.
I had friends at a startup that was doing this 10 years ago and they were doing a marvelous job. Don’t know what happened to it, blocking porn isn’t something that people really want to pay for imo.
But it’s totally doable and it doesn’t involve hashing / fingerprinting.
- azinman2 8y agoDetecting porn and child porn are very different. Also, detecting porn with no false positives and no false negatives is also much harder.
- rzzzt 8y agoAn image classifier of yesteryear had some problems with sand dunes: https://gizmodo.com/british-cops-want-to-use-ai-to-spot-porn-but-it-keeps-m-1821384511 https://gizmodo.com/british-cops-want-to-use-ai-to-spot-porn...
- reaperducer 8y agoblocking porn isn’t something that people really want to pay for imo. Sell it to libraries, or any other place that has publicly-available computers. (My local library has a regular wifi network, and a second one that doesn't filter NSFW content.)
- bdhess 8y agoAre you suggesting that a censored network is "regular"-- at a library?
- exolymph 8y agoDepending on the location, if porn is available, homeless people will come in and masturbate. (I'm not sure whether that problem is endemic or occasional... and they'll come in to masturbate anyway, but porn is arguably a superstimulus and may affect the frequency of incidents.)