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A very understandable misfire by FB's porn detection algorithms, considering the unintentionally saucy text submitted with those cute photos of Nut the cat: "..

by cs702 14y ago

A very understandable misfire by FB's porn detection algorithms, considering the unintentionally saucy text submitted with those cute photos of Nut the cat: "...Here you can see in more detail how Nut presses her face as hard as she can into mine. She does this all night, by the way. If I move my face away, she rearranges herself to grip the back of my head as tightly as possible. If I'm face-down on the pillow..." -- Edit: changed "probable" to "very understandable," and quoted some of the text submitted with those photos.

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- patio11 14y ago
  You know they run facial recognition on every photo, right? That makes doing any statistical analysis of "face", "nut", and "hard" look very, very cheap. Also, while it is totally true that image recognition software does chew computational resources, FB (and Google, and the other web-scale companies) have computational resources up the wazoo. When you've got 100,000 servers and could sic an Ivy league worth of vision research PhDs at the problem, this issue (like many others) gets slightly easier. Besides, it scales better than people, and the alternative is tasking 1/2 your CS team (Facebooks has several hundred people IIRC, might be larger now) on what is, approximately, the worst job you could imagine.
- Permit 14y ago
  I remember watching Google testify regarding SOPA and how difficult it would be to find and block copyrighted content. During their testimony they alluded to algorithms which can find pornographic material based on skin tone and other criteria. It wouldn't surprise me if Facebook implemented something similar.
- sputknick 14y ago
  a few years ago Tenable's Nessus scanning tool had a "porn detection" feature that was... not terrible. I imagine time + facebook == something even better. Or maybe not.
- ceejayoz 14y ago
  http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/facebook-to-combat-child-porn-using-microsofts-technology/ http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/facebook-to-c...
- dickeytk 14y ago
  It's not that hard, Geocities was doing it back in the 90's!
- jonknee 14y ago
  You severely underestimate the amount of processing power that Facebook utilizes. By orders of magnitude. They have kept and continue to analyze every action anyone has ever taken on Facebook and any site with Like button.
svachalek 14y ago
I hadn't thought about the language. I noticed there's an awful lot of skin-tone with the extreme closeup angle there. Even if they do have face detection, it may be too close to even catch it.

by cs702 14y ago

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patio11 14y ago
You know they run facial recognition on every photo, right? That makes doing any statistical analysis of "face", "nut", and "hard" look very, very cheap. Also, while it is totally true that image recognition software does chew computational resources, FB (and Google, and the other web-scale companies) have computational resources up the wazoo. When you've got 100,000 servers and could sic an Ivy league worth of vision research PhDs at the problem, this issue (like many others) gets slightly easier. Besides, it scales better than people, and the alternative is tasking 1/2 your CS team (Facebooks has several hundred people IIRC, might be larger now) on what is, approximately, the worst job you could imagine.
Permit 14y ago
I remember watching Google testify regarding SOPA and how difficult it would be to find and block copyrighted content. During their testimony they alluded to algorithms which can find pornographic material based on skin tone and other criteria. It wouldn't surprise me if Facebook implemented something similar.
sputknick 14y ago
a few years ago Tenable's Nessus scanning tool had a "porn detection" feature that was... not terrible. I imagine time + facebook == something even better. Or maybe not.
ceejayoz 14y ago
http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/facebook-to-combat-child-porn-using-microsofts-technology/ http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/facebook-to-c...
dickeytk 14y ago
It's not that hard, Geocities was doing it back in the 90's!
jonknee 14y ago
You severely underestimate the amount of processing power that Facebook utilizes. By orders of magnitude. They have kept and continue to analyze every action anyone has ever taken on Facebook and any site with Like button.

svachalek 14y ago

I hadn't thought about the language. I noticed there's an awful lot of skin-tone with the extreme closeup angle there. Even if they do have face detection, it may be too close to even catch it.