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It never occurred to me before reading this post that someday child porn will inevitably be completely vanquished. Open to contradictory views, but my thinking
by aerovistae 5y ago
It never occurred to me before reading this post that someday child porn will inevitably be completely vanquished. Open to contradictory views, but my thinking is that someday, eventually, AI will be advanced enough to identify an image's content unambiguously and without error, just like a human user.
No human could possibly be unable to correctly identify an image of child porn, and someday algorithms will reach that point too. And once they do....it's probably not a big leap from there for browsers and operating systems to start denying the images altogether, just blacking them out and preventing their transmission over networks.
The flipside is that it is impossible for even a human to tell the difference between a 17yo and an 18yo, and moreover impossible for a computer (and arguably for a human) to know whether the user of a device is sending images of themself (i.e. a 17yo sexting with their bf/gf) or whether it's exploitation. That's harder.
So for like this new post from apple, this is going to be pretty shitty for high schoolers trying to sext their boyfriends and girlfriends.
- woofie11 5y agoGoodness, I hope not! I run GNU/Linux, and use encryption. Any mandatory technology which could scan my hard drive for child porn could scan it for: - Antigovernment subversive materials - Embarrassing things to blackmail me with - Non-PC communications - Right-wing/left-wing political materials - And so on I'd like to continue to have a computer I control, and I'd like my child to grow up with that freedom too. I'm much more worried about risks to my child's freedom and privacy than the (exceptionally rare but frightening) chance of exploitation for child pornography. As a footnote, many algorithms able to correctly identify child porn would also be able to generate it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake_pornography#DeepNude https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake_pornography#DeepNude
- dweekly 5y agoTo the latter point, a minor user transmitting sexual images of themselves may be breaking the law depending on the state and the age of the recipient, so an algorithm may not need to "special case" a "legitimate" reason for the transmission of a sexual image of a minor -- or if the algorithm did, it would need to be very complex to account for the state and ages of both sender and recipient. See e.g. Louisiana's sexting laws: https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/teen-sexting-louisiana.htm https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/teen-sexting...
- randyrand 5y agoCSAM existed before computers too. Photographs can produced without computers even involved!