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Existing flagging systems are adequate and 1 cent per use doesn't seem like a sustainable business model for anyone involved. It seems like mostly social networ
by smartwater 13y ago
Existing flagging systems are adequate and 1 cent per use doesn't seem like a sustainable business model for anyone involved. It seems like mostly social networks would be your customer, but 5 minutes is a long wait and eliminates many use cases. A quick script hooked up to Mechanical Turk (or TaskArmy) does the same thing and could provide results in a minute or less.
You'd also be associating yourself with porn, which comes with all sorts of weird consequences.
What makes you think that this is a problem that needs solving? And if it needs solving, what makes it worth it to you? Are you uniquely qualified to solve this problem? What is your end goal?
- wsieroci 13y agoYes I think this problem needs solving because I do not see any good reliable API service like this on the web right now.
- stevekemp 13y agoI'd suggest the reverse. Because there is no existing API this cannot be in-demand. Or it would exist. Sure companies like OKCupid, Facebook, POF, etc, all want to detect porn in their user-uploaded images, but they all handle it via user-reporting. That costs them nothing, and is "fast". I suspect not many people would be prepared to wait five minutes for a real result.
- casual_slacker 13y agoWhat about combining a machine learning algorithm with people work for images with low confidence. You could even train the network with feedback from the people workers.