Any system that accepts public uploads will eventually receive all kinds of horrifying depravity and disgusting content. Viewing some images can cause permanen

Any system that accepts public uploads will eventually receive all kinds of horrifying depravity and disgusting content. Viewing some images can cause permanent psychological injury. What is OK for one person might cause severe distress for another. For example, certain kinds of porn can trigger panic attacks for victims of abuse. Automatic nudity/gore detectors save a lot of people from looking at such things. This includes users and employees. Automatic content filters also enable new business models. They allow new products to exist that wouldn't be economically viable without automatic filters. And they lower costs, which makes our society more efficient and wealthy. They are not perfect, but neither are human moderators. Here is some analysis on the performance of these nudity/gore detection systems: "Comparison of the best NSFW Image Moderation APIs 2018" https://towardsdatascience.com/comparison-of-the-best-nsfw-image-moderation-apis-2018-84be8da65303 https://towardsdatascience.com/comparison-of-the-best-nsfw-i...