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Pornhub has begun to use machine learning to automatically tag videos:
Artificial intelligence has proven to be a dab hand at recognizing what's going on in photos and videos, but the datasets it's usually trained on are pretty genteel. Not so for Pornhub, which announced today that it's using machine learning to automatically catalog its videos.
The site is starting small, deploying facial recognition software that will detect 10,000 individual porn stars and tag them in footage. (Usually this information is provided by uploaders and viewers, who will still play a part by verifying the software's choices.) It plans to scan all 5 million of its videos "within the next year," and then move onto more complicated territory: using the software to identify the specific categories videos belong to, like "public" and "blonde."
In a press statement, Pornhub VP Corey Price said the company was joining the trend of firms using AI to "expedite antiquated processes." However, the speed at which PornHub's AI processes the data doesn't seem like it would be an improvement on its current crowdsourced system. While in beta the machine learning software apparently scanned some 50,000 videos in a month. At this rate it would take nearly a decade to scan the entire site, but presumably improvements are being made.
Meanwhile, a security firm has warned that millions of Pornhub users were targeted by "malvertising" for more than a year:
Millions of Pornhub users were targeted with a malvertising attack that sought to trick them into installing malware on their PCs, according to infosec firm Proofpoint.
By the time the attack was uncovered, it had been active "for more than a year", Proofpoint said, having already "exposed millions of potential victims in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia" to malware by pretending to be software updates to popular browsers.
Although Pornhub, the world's largest pornography site with 26bn yearly visits according to data from ranking firm Alexa, and its advertising network have shut down the infection pathway, the attack is still ongoing on other sites.
Also at TechCrunch, Engadget, and The Sacremento Bee.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by looorg on Thursday October 12 2017, @12:28PM (4 children)
Facial recognition ... that is a concept with multiple meanings considering it's from Pornhub. Still it's a potential neat feature that I'm sure they can have a usage for far beyond cataloging porn.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday October 12 2017, @05:07PM (1 child)
Surely, the less-publicized Cannes film festival has an award in recognition of the best facial.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday October 12 2017, @10:12PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday October 12 2017, @06:29PM
Yes, but I do wonder about "The Verge" as any kind of source. They don't seem to be able to know the difference between public and pubic.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @07:50PM
its funny
but its as scary as all fuck
regular people's youtube videos -- or people with videos stolen off their phones
all magically identified via a machine, and cataloged.
people say fuck beta, i say fuck the cloud. there is no opting out of the robots that will identify us as we roam the mall, walk down the street, or say the wrong thing and get identified a problem to get rounded up later because our ideas are dangerous.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @02:18PM
Wow! I have a lot of, ahem, 'research' to do in the basement!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @02:50PM (1 child)
That's a lot of Kleenex.
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Thursday October 12 2017, @05:04PM
That's quite a few Olympic pools to soak up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @02:56PM
> ...specific categories videos belong to, like "public" and "blonde."
No disrespect meant, but wouldn't this be more accurate as:
...specific categories videos belong to, like "pubic" and "bimbo."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by AssCork on Thursday October 12 2017, @03:47PM (1 child)
THIS.
Grab your popcorn! Facial recognition technology, fed by the millions of idiots (or their friends) who post their face on FaceBook, is almost in the hands of the little guy.
The day when any random person can identify/blackmail a politician's family member 'performing' in a leaked iCloud video is the day the Internet Kill Switch gets used.
This is going to be so much fun!
Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday October 12 2017, @06:42PM
Crowdsouring/human flesh search/*chan was already good at doing that. With the tools available now they are just unstoppable.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @05:52PM (1 child)
wget pornfile.mp4
open windows in a VM, or on a pc whose HD you will reformat while performing exorcism rites later
launch excel
tell excel to open pornfile
"The file is corrupt and cannot be opened"
See? Excel knows. Good excel.
(Score: 4, Funny) by LoRdTAW on Thursday October 12 2017, @07:55PM
I'm surprised excel didn't try to refactor the mp4 into malicious vbscript and run it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @02:38AM (3 children)
I'd be happy if the AI could tell the difference between babe and dog.
Oh the heartbreak of false advertising!
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday October 13 2017, @09:35AM (1 child)
You need help differentiating your pedo and zoo porn?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @10:30PM
No, just a way to avoid "hot babes" that actually look like crack whores or a grandma who let herself go.
Now, a grandma who has maintained herself, on the other hand...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday October 14 2017, @11:26AM
> I'd be happy if the AI could tell the difference between babe and dog.
Babe = meatbag. Kill Kill Kill. Put into organic waste bag
Dog = meatbag. Kill Kill Kill. Put into organic waste bag
There is no meaningful difference.
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