The title seems a little misleading, the support page makes it sound more like they scan incoming, potentially unsolicited images for nudity. I guess if you are in the habit of sending people dick pics, then I can see the title being "Apple can scan your photos or videos to detect whether they contain nudity before the recipient opens them"
Does this mean it can also detect "send nudes" to avoid false positives on solicited lewd images? Or does the UI have a on/off toggle for currently-accepting-lewd-images?
Are you really attempting to justify censorship to keep porn off of the site? We’ve had algorithms for years now that can detect nudity. It’s a simple filter that can be added that allows the user to select if they want to see it or not. Much like DDG and Google image search.
> depicts nudity of any sort including full or partial human nudity or nudity in non-human forms such as cartoons, fantasy art or manga.
What about pictures of your kids? Anyone who has kids has the ubiquitous first bath, bathtub hijinks pictures of small children.
Where does this cross the line into child pr0n? What if you catch a "private" part by accident in the frame?
These are _not_ for public consumption but may appear on private cloud storage due to backups, etc.
This is a large issue as more and more companies are backing your stuff up in the cloud. You as a consumer may not even realize where your _private_ content is going.
> We also manually removed pictures which were identified as containing harmful content, such as violent, offensive, obscene or equivalent undesirable pictures which may shock anyone.
This makes me think, if filtering nudity etc is possible via APIs and can be deployed on a scale then why the hell do I still see embarrassing pictures popping up in my FB timeline from some arcane pages which I might have liked somewhile ago. Can't FB just flag or remove porn images automatically?
There's a difference between nudity and porn. Facebook banned the famous "Napalm Girl" photo, and then later un-banned it. Rules appear to be arbitrary and constantly changing.
I don't understand how these various AI companies even try to filter NSFW content. The world contains NSFW, trying to avoid it by "filtering" is a effort not worth taking, the undertaking is huge and filled with pitfalls and false-positives.
I'm not making a comment on the morality of the images only that some automatic content filters might consider it pornography which is usually not allowed in corporate environments
“No, our suite detects nudity and automatically deletes related imagery.”
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