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Comparison of the Best NSFW Image Moderation APIs 2018

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

looking into it, I will update the results if I find an error!

Also, the 3rd chart in "Overall Comparison" has a #REF! label

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#32

Great comparison, and thanks for the review, happy being in the TOP-5 :). It seems, though, Sightengine's scores on the SFW category were swapped. The detailed google sheet lists the NSFW "raw" scores, not the "safe" scores.

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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.

I'm aware of the issue, and trying to fix it. But medium won't let me make any edits. Since I originally published the blog have been in constant touch with their support but they all seem to be away for thanksgiving. Just keep getting the error "Oops! Something happened to Medium. We’ll fix it as soon as we can."

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The Yahoo NSFW classifier that is mentioned is available here: https://github.com/yahoo/open_nsfw I wonder if there's a way to ship this model and run it in an end-user app, in a way that does not require additional setup. I could use that.

I think it's possible to convert the caffe model and use something like Firebase MLKit or Core ML:

https://firebase.google.com/docs/ml-kit/use-custom-models

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreml

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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…

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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post #28

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.

Not necessarily, the NN may just concentrate on them in the porn it's trained on, because it's a common factor that's in porn, but not in beach pics for example. (whereas in both you have almost naked people).

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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 idea was extensively discussed here in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11354021

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#40

Just think, someone had to train these models. There are also models trained specifically for child pornography. Would you like to know these people?

My brother is a retired Inspector who did many child pornography and abuse cases. His IT guy did many searches and indexes of computers full of child porn. I’m happy to know both of these people.
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