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Comparison of the Best NSFW Image Moderation APIs 2018

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Re: Comparison of the Best NSFW Image Moderation APIs 2018

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Post by icebraining »

tyingq wrote: post #41
cataflam wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 pro…

There was. The most well known was CleanFlicks. They were all sued into oblivion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CleanFlicks There's a documentary about it: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1007026/

Not all; ClearPlay won: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearPlay

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Post by danielvf »

dharmab wrote: post #44
JazzXP wrote: 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…

Facebook uses human filters since their policy is not a simple "no nudity" one. For example, breastfeeding pictures are allowed. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/post-no-evil

I know that Facebook uses human content filters - A friend of a friend is one - but something has changed with Facebook moderation in the last few months, and I have a strong suspicion that Facebook has started rolling out algorithmic moderation without humans in the loop.

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Post by joshvm »

aadityaa wrote: post #8
zawerf wrote: post #4

If the nsfw images were from google search (or are images that could easily be indexed by google), it's not surprising that google is performing well on them. Presumably any low confidence images would've been manually tagged and re-added to their training set already.

Hey zawerf, your right. 2 notes. 1) it's very difficult to find nsfw images especially a particular kind like gore or suggestive nudity unless you Google things (which indicates a bigger problem). Maybe the solution is to use Bing (maybe this would cause the same issue in compariosn) or DuckDuckGo. But honestly I think if DuckDuckGo indexed a page, I'm pretty sure Google did as well. You would probably need something…

If you're struggling on (1), Reddit has all kind of bizarre subreddits which cater to all kinds of images. It's also conveniently (is that fortunate?) well categorised. There are definitely subs for gory photos, non-nudity NSFW images and so on. Reddit is also a great resource for categorised SFW, since there are so many subreddits with active and strict moderation.

It's reasonably easy to scrape: https://github.com/jveitchmichaelis/redditdownloader

They may have changed the API since I wrote that though.

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Post by gaius »

phyller wrote: post #43
captainwhoreal wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So the scenes where they kill each other are okay but God forbid a nipple? That's sick...

Pretty sure parent comment was specifically referring to violence as I don't recall explicit nudity in Star Trek movies (just suggested nudity).

There was a completely gratuitous fanservice scene with Alice Eve in Into Dullness.

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Post by miss_classified »

aadityaa wrote: post #50
miss_classified wrote: post #7

The Gore10 image isn't gore, unless there's something I don't know about going on. It appears to be a toy cartoon pet rat situated on top of some glossy rubbery plastic red toy prop slime guts. Whatever it is, or is supposed to be, it isn't an explicit or graphic depiction of real violence. Does that matter? I think so. Maybe it's not something to show a small child, and at a glance, one might develop the wrong impre…

Hey miss_classified I was pretty disturbed by most of these images. That images was no exception. Honestly till you pointed it out I had no clue. Anyway if it's safe for work or not that's debatable. Would I want my co-workers seeing this on my screen probably not. As I mentioned in the blog right at the end I'm more convinced after going through this exercise that it's difficult if not impossible for us to agree on…

This image is definitely safe for work:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J2YwtYzDUyK9ESdyxjaWLArws6U...

No one would get fired for that image. I could imagine it being sold as a Halloween product on Ebay or Amazon, and it should appear in normal Safe Search search results, since it is certainly a toy. It's a scary monster toy, but a toy nonetheless.

Is it safe for every context? Maybe not. There are definitely more scenarios than just being "Safe For Work" when it comes to rating content. Work is ostensibly filled with adults.

Would this image be safe for all age groups? Maybe not. Is it possible you might encounter a product like this in a department store or seasonal store? Yes. Depending on labeling, you might see it in either Spencer Gifts or Target. So, this is where parental controls come in, and MPAA or ESRB ratings are probably a better guide to moderation.

Is it rated "G" or "E for Everyone"? I'd still argue yes, and that red plastic isn't worthy of restriction unless context is explicitly demonstrating that it's an animal eating human remains somehow. If it were labeled as "Rat Eating Zombie Guts" it might be labeled "PG" or "T for Teens" but completely unlabeled, and stripped of context, or other conceptual cues lent by well-known notoriety/infamy, it's clearly just painted rubber, and a curiosity, not a psychologically damaging image.

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Post by Delmania »

sytelus wrote: 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" :).

Better yet you could wait until the kids are mature enough, watch the content, and then discuss it with them.

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Post by wtracy »

rolleiflex wrote: post #21

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.

Ooh, I wonder if you could make a "family friendly" browser extension or firewall from that.
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