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: 2, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @06:44PM
A man willing to expose himself to a woman uninvited is clearly not interested in social norms, laws, what have you, and at what point shall they stop? It's a threat, and cannot be treated as not a threat. Your attempt to minimize the gravity of the situation shows you as an apologist for every sex offender ever. Die mad, it's still the truth.
From approximately the age of eleven, females are in a continual state of harassment, of being on the receiving end of men violating social norms and attempting to force themselves upon. The spectrum can be from the goddamn asshole who refuses to accept "I'm not interested, stop interacting with me," to the criminal perverts who actually lay hands on uninvited, to the monsters who say "i thought you were my friend, why not come to bed with me?" There's several flavors, this is not exhaustive, and a common feature is that other men refuse to recognize these evil behaviors for what they are. Women cannot help but BE victims when men are committing crimes against them.