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posted by janrinok on Sunday September 08 2019, @03:17AM   Printer-friendly

Unsolicited nudes detected and deleted by AI

Software that can detect and delete unsolicited penis pictures sent via private messages on Twitter is being developed by researchers in Seattle. The project was started after developer Kelsey Bressler was sent an unsolicited nude photo by a man. She is now helping a friend refine an artificial intelligence system that can detect the unwanted penis pictures and delete them before they are ever seen.

She said social networks could do more to protect users from cyber-flashing. "When you receive a photo unsolicited it feels disrespectful and violating," Ms Bressler told the BBC. "It's the virtual equivalent of flashing someone in the street. You're not giving them a chance to consent, you are forcing the image on them, and that is never OK."

To test and train the artificial intelligence system, Ms Bressler and her team set up a Twitter inbox where men were invited to "send nudes for science". So many volunteered their nude photos that the team has had to close the inbox.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @04:49AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @04:49AM (#891186)

    Here is my algorithm: if is_image(obj): del obj

    In all seriousness, they didn't give the specificity. With no measure of that, then anything that has a high enough sensitivity works, which my example satisfies. My guess, judging from the description, is that they are assuming all dick pics without explicit white-listing of the sender by the recipient are violations. The hard part, in that case, is just identifying dick pics from other pics. And in that case, the kind of woman who would use such an app would probably not mind a lower specificity.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @07:53AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @07:53AM (#891231)

    Instead of deleting the offending pic, autophotoshop it to shrink the offending content to miniscule proportions, maybe with some VD fungus thrown in for good measure, and return to sender as CC of delivered pic.

    He probably won't send any more.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 08 2019, @08:09PM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday September 08 2019, @08:09PM (#891384) Journal

      That's just evil. ...I *like* it. I'd never be able to come up with something so poetic alone.

      --
      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...