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Comparison of the Best NSFW Image Moderation APIs 2018

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A very interesting and related thing are images generated using the Yahoo NSFW classification neural network. It's fairly NSFW: https://open_nsfw.gitlab.io

That’s absolutely amazing. Reminds me of Francis Bacon (the painter) and his flesh / gore themed works.

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post #13

Check out the "links to original images" sections as they are incorrect ~50% of the time. The name above the blurred image does not correspond to the link name.

Also be careful with opening many of these images, as they open in Google Drive. Which will display all images viewed on this blog the next time you open it.

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This is very cool comparison. I would really like folks at Netflix/Amazon to take this and build a feature that auto-skips through non-PG rated content so you can watch some of otherwise very great movie/TV content with very young kids. For example, StarTrek. They can call this feature "PGify" :).

This is a really good idea.

It makes me smile to think that my 15-year-old self would have loved a feature that did the same but in reverse. That was, of course, a pre-internet, almost porn-free world.

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Great write up. As a photographer, the more companies are relying on this the more frustrating the mis classification of SFW as NSFW is getting. I’ve copped a few Facebook bans from automated detection (I assume given how quickly the report comes in) for images totally within their community guidelines. A number of my photographer friends are in the same boat also. I counted at least 5 of us on 30 day bans in October alone.

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post #14

This is very cool comparison. I would really like folks at Netflix/Amazon to take this and build a feature that auto-skips through non-PG rated content so you can watch some of otherwise very great movie/TV content with very young kids. For example, StarTrek. They can call this feature "PGify" :).

There is (at least) one company providing this kind of services. They tag in the movie all the content with timestamps, and can provide it to a player to skip or not depending on the tag (nudity, violence, etc.).

As far as I know, it was manual, but that was already a few years ago.

I don't remember the name of the company, but surely it can be found and there are probably multiple such providers. The service was provided to TV operators (satellite, cable or pay-TV) to include in their set-top boxes.

PS: of course, as sjcsjc mentioned in a sibling comment, it immediately gives the idea to many people to only show those parts :)

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A very interesting and related thing are images generated using the Yahoo NSFW classification neural network. It's fairly NSFW: https://open_nsfw.gitlab.io

This is brilliant, especially the cross-categorised images.

I had thought these were talking about 'pornography', but this makes it clear that a very large amount of its training set must consist of dick pics.

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post #26

Great write up. As a photographer, the more companies are relying on this the more frustrating the mis classification of SFW as NSFW is getting. I’ve copped a few Facebook bans from automated detection (I assume given how quickly the report comes in) for images totally within their community guidelines. A number of my photographer friends are in the same boat also. I counted at least 5 of us on 30 day bans in October…

I had a friend pick up a presumably automated ban from Facebook this month for posting a picture of a soldier from a WWII re-enactment he went to. No gore, no nudity, just a half body shot of a German soldier in uniform standing in the camp, smiling at the camera. No idea what triggered it, but it is scary.
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