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Bumble releases open-source A.I. feature to help combat unsolicited nudes

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Re: Bumble releases open-source A.I. feature to help combat unsolicited nudes

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I'm almost certain your comment is tongue-in-cheek, but it did pique my curiosity - what do you think the actual ratio of unwanted explicit photos from each sex is? I have a hard time imagining it being less than 99:1.

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I'm almost certain your comment is tongue-in-cheek, but it did pique my curiosity - what do you think the actual ratio of unwanted explicit photos from each sex is? I have a hard time imagining it being less than 99:1.

There is a lot of DM spam on Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp involving explicit photos of female genitalia that would meet the criteria of obscene material under California's law[1] around sending unsolicited images by electronic means (SB 53).

1. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

Re: Bumble releases open-source A.I. feature to help combat unsolicited nudes

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I wonder if there is a way to use this to finetune an image generating AI to generate images that the AI would think is lewd but is not. (similar to what was done with a Yahoo model in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12756462 )

Archive of the original post (NSFW?): https://web.archive.org/web/20161022003102/https://open_nsfw...

Re: Bumble releases open-source A.I. feature to help combat unsolicited nudes

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I'm most interested in how they handle it for the users. It says potential "nudes" are blurred and can be "reported" or viewed. Will it tell the sender they're sending something that's going to be blurred? (which on one hand would let them resolve a false positive but also maybe let them find an adversarial image).

This is an interesting question, because it can be unpleasant to know that the attempt had even happened. I suspect given the option, most people would turn on an option for "block dick pics silently" and leave it on. Similar to how I never actually check my spam folder anymore.

Really? I would have guessed most people would want to know who the "toxic" people are in their life so that they can take appropriate action instead of finding out in a worse way later.

Re: Bumble releases open-source A.I. feature to help combat unsolicited nudes

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I'm almost certain your comment is tongue-in-cheek, but it did pique my curiosity - what do you think the actual ratio of unwanted explicit photos from each sex is? I have a hard time imagining it being less than 99:1.

I suspect it's not just the occurrence rate which influences this feature being male-focussed. It's probably also the expected reception, which is itself a function of the occurrence rate.

If I opened an app one day and received an unsolicited picture of female genitalia, that would be strange. If it happened every day, then it's spam, even if I don't have a strong aversion to it.

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I'm almost certain your comment is tongue-in-cheek, but it did pique my curiosity - what do you think the actual ratio of unwanted explicit photos from each sex is? I have a hard time imagining it being less than 99:1.

There is a lot of DM spam on Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp involving explicit photos of female genitalia that would meet the criteria of obscene material under California's law[1] around sending unsolicited images by electronic means (SB 53). 1. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

Specially annoying when they use trending topics to tag their unrelated content. It never ocurred to me that I've seen more unsolicited female nudes in Twitter than everywhere else combined, including Reddit and its unsolicited chats.

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I'm almost certain your comment is tongue-in-cheek, but it did pique my curiosity - what do you think the actual ratio of unwanted explicit photos from each sex is? I have a hard time imagining it being less than 99:1.

There is a lot of DM spam on Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp involving explicit photos of female genitalia that would meet the criteria of obscene material under California's law[1] around sending unsolicited images by electronic means (SB 53). 1. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

Are they sent by the women who own the genitalia?

I have never once received an unwanted nude from a woman but as spam whereas with men it has happened enough times for me to believe without statistical justification that unwanted images of male genitalia would be more common.

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