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Hi, I am Hirak. I am a co-founder of Loti. Loti uses state of the art facial recognition algorithm built with proprietary models. It takes into consideration a

• braingenious 4y ago
  How did you arrive at the number of over 2.6 Billion victims of revenge porn? 33% of people seems like an incredible number.
  • lja 4y ago
    Here's the quick read: https://www.fastcompany.com/90467411/shocking-study-finds-1-in-3-are-victims-of-revenge-porn-or-image-based-sexual-abuse https://www.fastcompany.com/90467411/shocking-study-finds-1-... Here's the real study: https://www.naag.org/attorney-general-journal/an-update-on-the-legal-landscape-of-revenge-porn/ https://www.naag.org/attorney-general-journal/an-update-on-t... Also, I don't think these numbers could be extrapolated to every country/region/culture on earth but they do seem to hold for european and english speaking markets.
    • braingenious 4y ago
      So you work for this company and your opinion that it’s 33% of english-speaking and european people? Napkin math puts the number of victims at ~400 million (population of europe + north america/3), maybe double that if you charitably count all of Africa being “english speaking”.
      • lja 4y ago
        Any issues you have, you should read the study listed above. Gather what you want from it, believe what makes sense to you. It doesn’t matter to our mission. EDIT: regarding our marketing, I’ve cited our source.
        • braingenious 4y ago
          Your website says “33% of people” Do you think it’s useful to state that given your own admission that it’s likely much lower?
        • dr_kiszonka 4y ago
          I hope this service succeeds but that particular claim, especially in the light of the articles you shared, makes you seem untrustworthy.
          • lja 4y ago
            How is NAAG disreputable?
            • braingenious 4y ago
              I don’t think they’re calling NAAG disreputable, they’re calling you disreputable since you’ve now openly admitted that you don’t think that the number on your site is accurate but have chosen to pass the buck.
            • lja 4y ago
              You can’t make everyone happy.
              • braingenious 4y ago
                Not with obviously untrue statements that you admit to, no. Like lol what a silly premise. “Look to your left, look to your right, if you can’t find revenge porn of either of these people, there’s revenge porn of you! We don’t think this applies to the billions of people that don’t speak English or live in Europe, but we have very enlightened definitions of ‘percentage’ and ‘people’”
              • cvalka 4y ago
                No, obviously, not with bullshit claims.
• braingenious 4y ago
  Separate question: We’ve established that your website’s claim that there are 2.6 billion victims of revenge porn isn’t shared by people that work at Loti and it’s more likely ~400 million. Given that fact, if you were able to get 1% of those people to subscribe (4 million) at $8/mo, you would be taking in $32,000,000 per month ($384,000,000 per year). Would you not be the most profitable entity in the business of revenge porn?
  • 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
    Why should it be a "subscription"? Its not like your content once id'd and removed can't be uploaded again so why would there be recurring fees?
    • esyir 4y ago
      Because that totally works. Look at youtube and the phenomenal work done there to get the same contentID'd video on via transforms.
    • braingenious 4y ago
      >Why should it be a "subscription"? I genuinely have no idea, but that’s how they’ve decided to price this. For $8 you don’t even get takedowns or search results according to the pricing page. As far as I can tell you give them $8 per month in exchange for a monthly email saying “We ran a search.”? This is quite a bizarre company.
      • cookiengineer 4y ago
        Plot twist: they're the ones reuploading the taken down materials. It's a money making machine! /s
• schroeding 4y ago
  How high is the recall and the precision of your facial recognition ML model? :)