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I drew an elephant. Somehow it recognized that it was an elephant. Then it started erasing the elephant while blathering on about something free speech. I hone

I drew an elephant. Somehow it recognized that it was an elephant. Then it started erasing the elephant while blathering on about something free speech. I honestly don't understand what this is. Is it a trick to see if I actually will draw a penis (reverse psychology)? How does it recognize an elephant? Why did it erase my elephant? What is it blathering on about?

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lopmotr 7y ago
I think it just limits the amount of lines so the first ones get erased if you draw too many.
- LilBytes 7y ago
  Yeah I'm fairly certain that this is the case.
grishka 7y ago
Maybe its trunk was too phallic.
- ASalazarMX 7y ago
  Probably this. It does recognize penises and erases them, but labels them as "broom", "paintbrush", and likely "elephant". I guess the Google dataset made it a puritan at soul.
  - mockingbirdy 7y ago
    > I guess the Google dataset made it a puritan at soul. It has, indeed. Oftentimes, these systems get trained with people with very fundamental religious beliefs in the Philippines [1]. [1]: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/ https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/ [2]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-09-29/the-cleaners-documentary-social-media-moderation-the-philippines/10300098 https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-09-29/the-cleaners-... (full story)
  - grishka 7y ago
    Somewhere in this thread someone said to press D to see the categories it assigns to your drawing. I did, and then drew a penis. It did recognize it as such with a fairly high level of confidence so there is definitely a dedicated category for penises.
  - Kaibeezy 7y ago
    "Popsicle?"
- BolexNOLA 7y ago
  Hotdog / not hotdog
  - jshevek 7y ago
    This is at least the third repetition of the same mindless cultural reference in this thread. What is happening to this site?
netsec_burn 7y ago
Good to know I wasn't the only one who drew an elephant.
geomark 7y ago
I also drew an elephant. It said it was a funny horse. Sad drawing skills.
ryan_j_naughton 7y ago
In the website's own words: https://donotdrawapenis.com/colophon https://donotdrawapenis.com/colophon "Do not draw a penis? In 2018 Google open-sourced the Quickdraw data set. “The world's largest doodling data set”. The set consists of 345 categories and over 15 million drawings. For obvious reasons the data set was missing a few specific categories that people enjoy drawing. This made us at Moniker think about the moral reality big tech companies are imposing on our global community and that most people willingly accept this. Therefore we decided to publish an appendix to the Google Quickdraw data set. Do Not Draw a Penis functions as an agent to collect inappropriate doodles from people who are not willing to stay within the moral guidelines set by our social network providers. So far we have collected 10K doodles formatted the same way as Google's dataset. We are happy to announce you can download them here."
- taneq 7y ago
  > inappropriate doodles Phrasing!
bananamerica 7y ago
Seems like a play on the fact that, when given an opportunity, many people few an irresistible urge to draw obscenities. Especially penises.
kuroguro 7y ago
As far as I can tell it's supposed to be an evil AI that is educating/brainwashing you. If you keep drawing penises you can piss it off. So yes, the site is expecting you to draw some.
tomc1985 7y ago
I drew about a half dozen dicks with my mouse and it didn't recognize any of them :/
- mamon 7y ago
  Government officials currently in office are probably excluded from the dataset.
- happymellon 7y ago
  It also doesn't like breasts.
louhike 7y ago
It always repeats the same text and erase what you're doing whatever it is.
ozychhi 7y ago
I also drew an elephant but for some reason it said it was a hat? Ah, might've placed it in the boa

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lopmotr 7y ago

I think it just limits the amount of lines so the first ones get erased if you draw too many.

LilBytes 7y ago
Yeah I'm fairly certain that this is the case.

grishka 7y ago

Maybe its trunk was too phallic.

ASalazarMX 7y ago
Probably this. It does recognize penises and erases them, but labels them as "broom", "paintbrush", and likely "elephant". I guess the Google dataset made it a puritan at soul.
- mockingbirdy 7y ago
  > I guess the Google dataset made it a puritan at soul. It has, indeed. Oftentimes, these systems get trained with people with very fundamental religious beliefs in the Philippines [1]. [1]: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/ https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/ [2]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-09-29/the-cleaners-documentary-social-media-moderation-the-philippines/10300098 https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-09-29/the-cleaners-... (full story)
- grishka 7y ago
  Somewhere in this thread someone said to press D to see the categories it assigns to your drawing. I did, and then drew a penis. It did recognize it as such with a fairly high level of confidence so there is definitely a dedicated category for penises.
- Kaibeezy 7y ago
  "Popsicle?"
BolexNOLA 7y ago
Hotdog / not hotdog
- jshevek 7y ago
  This is at least the third repetition of the same mindless cultural reference in this thread. What is happening to this site?

netsec_burn 7y ago

Good to know I wasn't the only one who drew an elephant.

geomark 7y ago

I also drew an elephant. It said it was a funny horse. Sad drawing skills.

ryan_j_naughton 7y ago

In the website's own words: https://donotdrawapenis.com/colophon https://donotdrawapenis.com/colophon "Do not draw a penis? In 2018 Google open-sourced the Quickdraw data set. “The world's largest doodling data set”. The set consists of 345 categories and over 15 million drawings. For obvious reasons the data set was missing a few specific categories that people enjoy drawing. This made us at Moniker think about the moral reality big tech companies are imposing on our global community and that most people willingly accept this. Therefore we decided to publish an appendix to the Google Quickdraw data set. Do Not Draw a Penis functions as an agent to collect inappropriate doodles from people who are not willing to stay within the moral guidelines set by our social network providers. So far we have collected 10K doodles formatted the same way as Google's dataset. We are happy to announce you can download them here."

taneq 7y ago
> inappropriate doodles Phrasing!

bananamerica 7y ago

Seems like a play on the fact that, when given an opportunity, many people few an irresistible urge to draw obscenities. Especially penises.

kuroguro 7y ago

As far as I can tell it's supposed to be an evil AI that is educating/brainwashing you. If you keep drawing penises you can piss it off. So yes, the site is expecting you to draw some.

tomc1985 7y ago

I drew about a half dozen dicks with my mouse and it didn't recognize any of them :/

mamon 7y ago
Government officials currently in office are probably excluded from the dataset.
happymellon 7y ago
It also doesn't like breasts.

louhike 7y ago

It always repeats the same text and erase what you're doing whatever it is.

ozychhi 7y ago

I also drew an elephant but for some reason it said it was a hat? Ah, might've placed it in the boa