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Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites

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Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites

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Hi, I am Hirak. I am a co-founder of Loti. Loti uses state of the art facial recognition algorithm built with proprietary models. It takes into consideration a dozen facial characteristics in more than 1 angles to find matches from a collection of more than 50 million data sets. We keep adding millions of new data every month to make sure we don't miss out any privacy breach of your photo.

How high is the recall and the precision of your facial recognition ML model? :)

Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites

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Hi, I am Hirak. I am a co-founder of Loti. Loti uses state of the art facial recognition algorithm built with proprietary models. It takes into consideration a dozen facial characteristics in more than 1 angles to find matches from a collection of more than 50 million data sets. We keep adding millions of new data every month to make sure we don't miss out any privacy breach of your photo.

Separate question: We’ve established that your website’s claim that there are 2.6 billion victims of revenge porn isn’t shared by people that work at Loti and it’s more likely ~400 million. Given that fact, if you were able to get 1% of those people to subscribe (4 million) at $8/mo, you would be taking in $32,000,000 per month ($384,000,000 per year). Would you not be the most profitable entity in the business of re…

Why should it be a "subscription"?

Its not like your content once id'd and removed can't be uploaded again so why would there be recurring fees?

Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites

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Separate question: We’ve established that your website’s claim that there are 2.6 billion victims of revenge porn isn’t shared by people that work at Loti and it’s more likely ~400 million. Given that fact, if you were able to get 1% of those people to subscribe (4 million) at $8/mo, you would be taking in $32,000,000 per month ($384,000,000 per year). Would you not be the most profitable entity in the business of re…

Why should it be a "subscription"? Its not like your content once id'd and removed can't be uploaded again so why would there be recurring fees?

Because that totally works.

Look at youtube and the phenomenal work done there to get the same contentID'd video on via transforms.

Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites

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Would love clarity, what do you mean? That is the whole point of the service. If you don't submit a clear picture of yourself, there isn't any way for us to search.

You are making a great database. Ripe for governments, spies, stalkers, and trolls. Being as paranoid as I am I wonder which I assume this falls into.

I don't wonder. The -only- way to really try to protect that data is to not share or make it available - even to companies that allegedly have good intentions.

Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Separate question: We’ve established that your website’s claim that there are 2.6 billion victims of revenge porn isn’t shared by people that work at Loti and it’s more likely ~400 million. Given that fact, if you were able to get 1% of those people to subscribe (4 million) at $8/mo, you would be taking in $32,000,000 per month ($384,000,000 per year). Would you not be the most profitable entity in the business of re…

Why should it be a "subscription"? Its not like your content once id'd and removed can't be uploaded again so why would there be recurring fees?

>Why should it be a "subscription"?

I genuinely have no idea, but that’s how they’ve decided to price this. For $8 you don’t even get takedowns or search results according to the pricing page. As far as I can tell you give them $8 per month in exchange for a monthly email saying “We ran a search.”?

This is quite a bizarre company.

Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites

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Why should it be a "subscription"? Its not like your content once id'd and removed can't be uploaded again so why would there be recurring fees?

>Why should it be a "subscription"? I genuinely have no idea, but that’s how they’ve decided to price this. For $8 you don’t even get takedowns or search results according to the pricing page. As far as I can tell you give them $8 per month in exchange for a monthly email saying “We ran a search.”? This is quite a bizarre company.

Plot twist: they're the ones reuploading the taken down materials.

It's a money making machine! /s

Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites

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Why is the DMCA even relevant here? Who's the copyright holder?

They are considered unauthorized models.

Can you elaborate? I can't find anything in DMCA that says the subject of the image has copyright of the image.

Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites

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Are you fucking stupid? You literally just built a porn reverse image search tool. Think about it, all you need is a screen shot of a single frame of porn and you can find links to other vids with that person. This is a godsend for coomers. Not to mention, the abuse potential of something like this is insane. Now anyone can just use a girls facebook profile or linkedin pic to find nudes - perfect for fapping or for blackmail. Copyright isn't gonna stop offiline copies from being taken, and the fact that most NCII out there exists of a subject that is unaware of said content being published, hence the people that need your tool the most proabably won't know it exists - until its too late. It's so funny how you're trying to pass of this tool as "socially beneficial" when all it's gonna do is make the problem worse.

The internet and digital cameras being available to everyone was a mistake, when I come to power I'm just outright banning any transmission or storage of any photos of naked human bodies with the exception of medical reference pics. Or I'll just ban cellphones and home computers from civillian use entirely.

EDIT: I probably wouldn't ban the internet or home computers, but I'd at least completely ban porn, and use a tool like OPs to enforce such a ban with extreme prejudice. Anyone hosting or running a site with such content would face years of hard labor

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